NEW YORK (AP) — One death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are linked to a new outbreak of listeria of unknown origin, fitness officials said Thursday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention doesn’t know of any foods that could spread the deadly bacteria, but officials said the public is alert to symptoms and the possibility of infection.
These symptoms come with fever, muscle pain, nausea, and diarrhea.
Listeria can be treated with antibiotics, but it is especially harmful to pregnant women, newborns, the elderly, and others with weakened immune systems.
CDC officials say nearly all of the other 23 people known to have become inflamed from the outbreak live or traveled to Florida about a month before they became ill.
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Listeria is one of the most harmful bureaucracies of food poisoning and 22 of the inflamed have been hospitalized. An Illinois user died and a pregnant woman lost her fetus, the CDC said.
Listeria symptoms begin one to four weeks after eating infected foods, but can begin as early as the same day.
The first cases occurred in January of this year, but continued this month, when two of the other people became ill, CDC officials said.