2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29
In recent years, the harm caused by the use of GMO products has become increasingly fierce, but these claims have continued to be in the realm of the probable. However, a tragic incident with a man from Spain gave us a serious reason to think about what we put on our plate.
Medical experts and researchers have officially confirmed the first death of a person after consuming a genetically modified food product, news agencies report.
The first scapegoat for GMO foods was 31-year-old Spaniard Juan Pedro Ramos. The man died at Carlos III Hospital in Madrid after eating GMO tomatoes, which had recently been developed and contained fish genes.
It is these fish genes that caused Ramos' death, as they triggered a very serious allergic reaction in him, scientists say.
Juan Pedro Ramos, 31, was a warehouse worker. As he performed his official duties in the afternoon of the day, he felt that something strange was beginning to happen to him.
The young man's ability to work began to be disrupted by symptoms such as swelling of the throat, severe lowering of blood pressure, severe rash and others. Ramos guessed he had an allergic attack and prescribed an anti-allergy drug to improve his condition. Instead, however, the symptoms began to worsen.
Colleagues Juan Carlos Ramos then began to worry about him and transported him to a hospital. Doctors there took up the case, but were unable to find the cause of his allergic reaction. In a little over an hour, the man's condition deteriorated and he died at the medical center.
Specialists at the hospital conducted a series of tests to determine what led to the fatal end of Ramos. They initially concluded that he had an allergic reaction to seafood, only that the patient had not recently eaten seafood, but a sandwich with bacon, tomatoes and lettuce for lunch.
It later became clear that the tomatoes eaten by the young man contained allergens specific to fish. Even more frightening, however, was that these same vegetables were also a source of some antibiotic-resistant allergens, which prevented Ramos' condition from improving.
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