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Source: https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/outbreaks/monocytogenes-06-22/index.html
Listeria Outbreak
Posted June 30, 2022
A specific food item has not yet been identified as the source of this outbreak. Most of the sick people in this outbreak live in or traveled to Florida about a month before they got sick. Listeria symptoms usually start within 2 weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria. If you are at higher risk for Listeria infection and have symptoms, especially if you recently traveled to Florida, talk to your healthcare provider.
Healthcare providers should report listeriosis illnesses to their health department. This information may help investigators solve this outbreak.
Fast Facts
What People at Higher Risk Should Do
Listeria is most likely to sicken pregnant people and their newborns, adults aged 65 or older, and people with weakened immune systems. Other people can be infected with Listeria, but they rarely become seriously ill.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these Listeria symptoms:
Listeria Outbreak
Posted June 30, 2022
A specific food item has not yet been identified as the source of this outbreak. Most of the sick people in this outbreak live in or traveled to Florida about a month before they got sick. Listeria symptoms usually start within 2 weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria. If you are at higher risk for Listeria infection and have symptoms, especially if you recently traveled to Florida, talk to your healthcare provider.
Healthcare providers should report listeriosis illnesses to their health department. This information may help investigators solve this outbreak.
Fast Facts
- Illnesses: 23
- Hospitalizations: 22
- Deaths: 1
- States: 10
- Recall: No
- Investigation status: Active
What People at Higher Risk Should Do
Listeria is most likely to sicken pregnant people and their newborns, adults aged 65 or older, and people with weakened immune systems. Other people can be infected with Listeria, but they rarely become seriously ill.
Call your healthcare provider right away if you have any of these Listeria symptoms:
- Pregnant people typically experience only fever, fatigue, and muscle aches. However, Listeria infections during pregnancy can lead to miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery, or life-threatening infection of the newborn.
- People who are not pregnant may experience headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance, and convulsions, in addition to fever and muscle aches.
- Write down as much as you can remember about what you ate in the month before you got sick.
- Answer public health officials’ questions about your illness.
- Learn which foods are more likely to contain Listeria, and take steps to prevent getting sick.
- Stay up to date on food recalls and outbreaks to avoid getting sick from eating contaminated food....