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Listeria outbreak may be linked to Florida, CDC says
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A listeria outbreak that has sickened not less than 23 folks throughout 10 states could also be linked to Florida, the CDC stated this week.
Of the 22 individuals who well being officers have been capable of observe down, 20 of them reported dwelling in Florida or touring to the state within the month earlier than they acquired sick, however the CDC famous that “the importance of that is nonetheless beneath investigation.”
An electron micrograph of a Listeria bacterium in tissue is seen in a 2002 picture from the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention.
(Reuters/Elizabeth White/CDC/Handout by way of Reuters)
Listeria, a foodborne sickness, is normally brought on by contaminated dairy, produce, deli meats, or smoked fish.
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Signs, which embrace fever, fatigue, and muscle aches, sometimes begin inside one to 4 weeks of consuming meals contaminated with listeria.
Within the present outbreak, 22 folks have been hospitalized and one individual has died. 5 of those that acquired contaminated had been pregnant on the time, with one individual reporting the lack of the fetus.
Vials of uncooked sheep’s milk are seen with bottles of drugs used to verify the milk for strains of Listeria and Salmonella earlier than the milk is developed into roquefort cheese.
(Pascal Pavani/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
The true variety of sicknesses is probably going a lot greater, in keeping with the CDC, as some folks get better earlier than looking for medical consideration.
Well being officers are nonetheless attempting to determine the meals that’s the supply of this outbreak.
A listeria outbreak stemming from deli meats sickened not less than 10 folks and killed one in 2020. One other outbreak brought on by precooked hen put three folks within the hospital and killed one final yr.