The baby contracted the rare Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria, which also caused last year’s formula shortage.
The death of an infant last year has been linked to a contaminated breast pump in a case that highlights the risks babies face from infection. The premature infant had contracted the rare Cronobacter sakazakii bacteria—the same one that caused a nationwide baby formula shortage after a recall of Abbott Nutrition baby formula last year.
Investigators used genetic sequencing to connect the fatal infection to a home breast milk pump, which had been cleaned in a home sink and then reassembled without being properly dried. Samples from the mother’s breast milk and milk fortifier, as well as a pump used to feed the baby after it was hospitalized, were all negative for the bacteria.
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