South Africa’s Listeria Outbreak Claims 150+ Lives; Source Still Unknown
On Wednesday, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) issued its latest report on South Africa’s listeriosis outbreak--the worst of it’s kind in recorded history.
As of February 14, a total of 872 Listeria cases have been confirmed by the NICD. Nearly half of the cases (43 percent) involve babies under 1 month of age. To date, 164 individuals have died as the result of the outbreak.