Sarah Shrum Davis, One Health epidemiologist with NMDOH, tells parents what they need to know to keep their babies safe. She spoke with KC Counts. Here's a transcript of their conversation:

KC Counts:

So I think this was a shock to a lot of people to see botulism come up, which, we've become accustomed to botulism, but just the benign kind that we insert into our bodies so we can look younger, right? So why don't you start just by telling us what botulism is?

Sarah Shrum Davis:

Botulism is a bacteria. And what it does is in, at certain points, depending on a person's immune system or things like that, it can overgrow and produce a toxin. And so in the case of botulism, that is actually what makes you sick, is the toxin acting, rather than the bacterium themselves. So we don't take anti

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