Listeriosis -- Singapore
According to a statement issued by the Ministry of Health (MOH) on Monday morning [Apr 16 2018], 2 patients in Singapore had been infected with a _Listeria_ strain similar to [one causing] an outbreak in Australia tied to rockmelons.
One patient has recovered while the other died for reasons not due to the _Listeria_ infection, the ministry said. MOH said its National Public Health Laboratory had completed genetic sequence analysis on _Listeria_ bacteria strains obtained from the 5 patients
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5751769&promed&0
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