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During your pregnancy, you should avoid:

- Raw meat and shellfish: Uncooked seafood (we’re looking at you, sushi), including oysters, mussels, and clams. Also avoid rare or undercooked beef and poultry. These can be contaminated with toxoplasmosis or salmonella.

- Deli meat: Deli meats can be contaminated with listeria, bacteria that can cross the placenta and infect your developing baby. An infection in utero could lead to blood poisoning and could be life-threatening for your baby.

- Fish with high levels of mercury: That includes fish such as shark, king mackerel, swordfish, and tilefish. Wondering about tuna? In general, canned, chunk light tuna has lower levels of mercury, but it’s still smart to eat it sparingly.

- Smoked seafood: Avoid lox, kippered fish, jerky, or nova style salmon. There’s a risk that this refrigerated, smoked seafood could be contaminated with listeria. Smoked seafood that’s shelf-safe or canned, however, is probably fine.

- Raw eggs: This includes foods that contain raw eggs, so be wary of homemade Caesar dressings, Hollandaise sauces, mayonnaise, and certain custards. Raw eggs can pose a risk of salmonella.

- Soft cheeses: Some imported soft cheeses can have listeria, so steer clear of soft cheeses like Roquefort, feta, Gorgonzola, Camembert, and Brie. Mexican cheeses such as queso blanco and queso fresco should also be avoided, unless they’re made from pasteurized milk.

- Unpasteurized dairy: These products could contain listeria.

- Wet paint

- Cigarette smoke

- Alcohol

- Cat litter

Experimental gene therapies that temporarily turn you into a walking bag of monoclonal antibodies? Nothing to see here.

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This article reminds me of Aaron Siri's deposition of Stanley Plotkin in a legal case back in 2018. When Siri brought up the issue of safety & the IOM reports & talked about "absence of evidence" of safety & the conclusions in those reports, Plotkin simply dismissed them & said that in the absence of data the assumption is that it is safe to give.......because everyone knows vaccines have saved millions of lives.

That's the kind of logic we have been up against for a very long time.

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