Listeriosis -- South Africa
Cooked chicken and other deli meats such as ham and Bologna sausage are high on the list of suspects for causing the world's worst ever recorded listeriosis outbreak.
At least 81 people have died in the ongoing outbreak in South Africa, according to the country's National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), with the number of recorded cases now 767 spread across all 9 provinces. It is massively larger than the 2nd biggest outbreak, which took place in the United States in 2011, when
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5577247&promed&0
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