Infant Death in California Linked to Multi-State Listeria Outbreak from Ready-to-Eat Meats by Yu Shang Food Inc.

According to CBS News, a recent listeria outbreak connected to ready-to-eat meats has sickened nine people in California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey and killed one baby in California. Because some people might not have been tested, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cautions that the true number of cases could be higher. This comes as particularly worrying news as this bacteria can be more harmful to certain populations, including pregnant people, older adults, and those with weakened immune systems.

According to NBC News, a USDA inspection on October 21 found that Yu Shang Food Inc., a company situated in Spartanburg, South Carolina, was the cause of the incident since their meat products had listeria monocytogenes. The company announced a recall on November 9 and then expanded it in response to the unfortunate death of a newborn, whom the CDC determined was a twin with another sibling who also died but not from listeria. The recall includes a number of goods, including beef shank, poultry feet, and pork hock.

Researchers have found the listeria strain’s genomic sequence and linked it to Yu Shang Food items. The CDC clarified, “This suggests that people in this outbreak got sick from the same food,” according to NBC News. The CDC also underlined how resilient listeria is, pointing out that it may live in freezers and spread to other objects, so any surfaces that may have come into contact with the tainted products must be thoroughly cleaned.

According to the CDC’s list of symptoms, listeriosis can cause fever, headache, muscle aches, stiff neck, disorientation, loss of balance, or convulsions. These symptoms usually call for rapid medical intervention. Serious complications including premature birth or severe illness in the baby are more likely to occur in pregnant women in particular. All of the impacted Yu Shang Food goods were manufactured prior to October 28, according to NBC Newsnoted, and can be identified by establishment numbers P-46684 or EST. M46684.

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