According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) three more people have been reported ill due to a multi-state listeria outbreak linked to packaged salads produced by Dole Food Company Inc.
The people who were reported ill were from Connecticut, Missouri, and New York, the CDC said.
As of Wednesday 27 January fifteen people across eight U.S. states had been confirmed in the outbreak. The most recent case was diagnosed Jan. 3, according to a Thursday update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. All have required hospitalization and one has died.
Also on Wednesday Dole Food voluntarily recalled all salad mixes produced in its processing facility at Springfield, Ohio, after the CDC reported one patient death and 12 hospitalizations on Jan. 22, linked to consuming the contaminated salad.
In Canada, public health officials report seven people across five provinces have been infected. One person died, but it has not yet been confirmed that Listeriosis was the cause.
Source: reuters.com, foodsafetynews.com