{"id":53863,"date":"2022-07-01T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=53863"},"modified":"2022-07-01T16:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T20:16:49","slug":"1-dead-23-hospitalized-in-new-listeria-outbreak-tied-to-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2022\/07\/1-dead-23-hospitalized-in-new-listeria-outbreak-tied-to-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 23 hospitalized in new listeria outbreak tied to Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Health officials said that one death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/listeria_875px.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-53864\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/listeria_875px.jpg 876w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/listeria_875px-300x133.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/listeria_875px-768x340.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not identified a food that might be spreading the deadly bacteria, but officials said the public should be alert to symptoms and the possibility of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those symptoms include fever, muscle aches, nausea, and diarrhea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CDC officials said nearly all the 23 people known to have been infected in the outbreak either live in or traveled to Florida about a month before they got sick,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/science-health-centers-for-disease-control-and-prevention-d587bddf5f6698c8e798b69afe7c3749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Associated Press<\/a>&nbsp;reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listeria is one of the most dangerous forms of food poisoning, and 22 of the infected people were hospitalized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One person from Illinois died and one pregnant woman lost her fetus, the CDC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Listeria can be treated with antibiotics, but it is especially dangerous to pregnant women, newborns, the elderly, and those with compromised immune systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health officials said that one death and nearly two dozen hospitalizations are tied to a new listeria outbreak of unknown origin. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has not&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":53864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[1399,1400],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53865,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53863\/revisions\/53865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}