The parents of a Flagstaff baby sickened in an infantile botulism outbreak are suing the makers of the ByHeart baby formula at the heart of a nationwide recall .

Stephen and Yurany Dexter said their 4-month-old daughter, Rose, had to be flown by air ambulance to a children’s hospital two hours from home and treated for several weeks this summer.

Elsewhere, Michael and Hanna Everett, of Richmond, Kentucky, said their daughter, Piper, also 4 months, was also rushed to a hospital Nov. 8 with worsening symptoms of the rare and potentially deadly disease.

The lawsuits by both families, filed in federal courts in two states, allege that the ByHeart formula the babies consumed was defective and that the company was negligent in selling it. They seek financial payment for medical bills, emo

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