A widely sold ice cream product has been recalled after being linked to a Listeria outbreak that has hospitalized two people in the Northeast.
On Thursday (Aug. 10), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned that one person in New York and one in Pennsylvania had been hospitalized with listeriosis, a potentially serious infection caused by the bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. People typically become exposed to the microbe by eating contaminated food. Newborns and those who are pregnant, older than 65 or have weakened immune systems face the highest risk of severe illness and death from Listeria infection.
