United States: Two people in the United States have died, and 28 have been rehabilitated in 12 countries due to a listeria outbreak which is ever linked to sliced deli meat said the civil health officers on Friday.
The CDC stated that people from the Midwest to the East Coast have formerly fallen ill from listeria, and this particular bacteria can cause serious foodborne illness, particularly dangerous for pregnant individualities.
As reported in USA Today, Samples from the sick were collected between May 28 and July 5, and interviews revealed that 16 out of 18 ate meat sliced at a deli counter, primarily lemon, liverwurst, and ham.
The CDC is probing which flesh may be defiled, noting there’s no substantiation that pre-packaged deli flesh caused the illness.
Listeria outbreak map
The deaths have been happened in Illinois and New Jersey said the CDC and the New York had seven cases the most of any state.
Talking about the cases that has been registered so far in different states are Maryland had six cases, while the Missouri, Virginia, Georgia and Massachusetts each had two cases. Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and the North Carolina each has one case reported.
What is listeria and its Symptoms?
Listeria is basically a genus of bacteria that can cause severe illness and when it spreads from the gut to other parts of the body and the symptoms which typically start a week to four weeks after eating contaminated food and mainly includes headaches, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions, fever and the muscle aches as well and these symptoms can also start as early as the same day or up to 70 days after.
Anyone who is at the higher risk of getting sick from this listeria should avoid eating meats sliced at deli counters unless the meat is heated up to a level of temperature at is 165 degrees and even more sometimes is literally steaming hot that CDC recommends and anyone who shows the symptoms of this particular listeria after recently eating sliced deli meat should contact a health provider.