Listeriosis abortions: there are already five pregnant women who have lost their babies because of the outbreak

Today there have been confirmed three abortions produced by the largest outbreak of listeriosis registered in Spain, which added to the previous two would already be five pregnant women who have lost their babies due to this serious infection caused by contaminated meatloaf.

Three new abortions due to listeriosis

Of the last three, two have occurred in Seville. One of the pregnant women, who was admitted to the Virgen Macarena Hospital in Seville since last Thursday with a picture of diarrhea and vomiting, has lost her baby in week 32 of gestation. The baby was already lifeless inside the womb.

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The other pregnant woman suffered an abortion at the Virgen del Rocío hospital in her eighth week of gestation. Both had consumed the contaminated meat of La Mechá, as reported by the Andalusian Ministry of Health. In the absence of the results of the tests performed, the suspicion is that the reason for death has been caused by chorioamnionitis (infection of the placental membranes and amniotic fluid) due to listeria monocytogenes.

One of them had not received treatment "because she had the symptoms a month ago, very mild and did not consult," as explained by the spokesman of the cabinet of the Ministry of Health Dr. José Miguel Cisneros.

The other case has occurred in Madrid, in the first trimester of pregnancy. Even in the absence of the results of the analyzes that confirm it, but it is known that the woman consumed meat from Mecha in a restaurant in Andalusia.

To these three abortions last abortions are added those of two other pregnant women who also lost their babies before the health alert was decreed and they took meat that caused the origin of the listeriosis outbreak.

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One of them suffered an abortion at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital in Seville on August 2, when she was wearing 18 weeks gestation, and the other entered on August 12 with a hemorrhage caused by a placental abruption, which triggered a premature delivery. The baby was born lifeless and the analysis of the placenta tested positive for listeria.

To the five abortions it is necessary to add the death of three patients of advanced ages and with previous pathologies that were infected by the Listeria bacteria.

23 pregnant women affected by this outbreak remain admitted to Seville

Pregnant women admitted

27 pregnant women affected by the listeriosis outbreak have been treated at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital. Eleven of them gave birth to twelve "healthy" babies and the rest "follow their pregnancy normally until now", although abortions also show "that the treatment does not prevent this from happening," said the spokesman of the cabinet of the Ministry of Health for this listeriosis outbreak, Dr. José Miguel Cisneros.

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Listeriosis in pregnancy

This infection, caused by the bacteria listeria monocytogenesIt is found in nature and can be contracted through the consumption of contaminated foods such as raw milk, cheese made with raw milk, raw or undercooked meat, raw vegetables or sausages.

Although listeria infection is relatively rare, pregnant women They are 20 times more likely to suffer from this disease that other people and the infection can be very serious for babies, since the bacterium crosses the placental barrier.

The infection can lead to premature delivery, abortion, delivery of dead fetus, or full-term children with severe sequelae, especially neurological, and can cause mental retardation.

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