{"id":65640,"date":"2025-11-22T20:48:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65640\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T20:48:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T20:48:11","slug":"2024-25-baby-botulism-cases-under-investigation-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65640\/","title":{"rendered":"2024-25 Baby Botulism Cases Under Investigation in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The California Department of Public Health is investigating six additional cases of botulism in the state in infants who were given ByHeart formula before the start of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-11-11\/byheart-infant-formula-recall-expands-after-15-babies-sickened\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">current outbreak<\/a> in August, a department spokesperson told Bloomberg. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Those babies became ill between November 2024 and June 2025, said Brian Micek, a CDPH spokesperson. The department hasn\u2019t linked the cases to the babies\u2019 consumption of ByHeart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Department of Public Health is investigating six additional cases of botulism in the state in infants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7273,7,9,8,8291,39238,643,9180,39239,12946,4720,435,39240],"class_list":["post-65640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-august","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-cdc","tag-current","tag-environment","tag-finance","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-industries","tag-public-health","tag-united-states","tag-world-health-organization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}