Listeria outbreak in 5 provinces
Posted Jan 23, 2016 11:08:47 AM.
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Canada’s Public Health Agency says it believes there’s a connection between a listeria outbreak in five provinces and one in the U.S.
The outbreak has resulted in three people being hospitalized in Ontario, and four more in Quebec, New Brunswick, P.E.I and Newfoundland, most of them elderly women.
The outbreak has prompted Dole to withdraw packaged salads from stores in Ontario, Quebec, Atlantic Canada and the U.S.
Packaged salads from a Dole plant in Ohio have been linked to one death and the hospitalization of 12 people in the United States.
The public health agency says it’s awaiting lab tests to confirm that Canada and the U-S are dealing with the same outbreak.
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