If you don't know where your delicatessen meat came from, don't eat it, Ontario health officials advised Thursday as they investigated more deaths for links to an outbreak of listeriosis.
The bacterial infection lavatory be caused by eating contaminated food. One person, a woman from Hamilton, has died so far in the outbreak, and officials are investigating whether another four deaths are linked to it.
A sum of 13 cases of listeriosis sustain been confirmed as outbreak-related, including the one last, and some other 17 are under investigation to watch whether they, too, were spawned by the eruption, Dr. David Williams, Ontario's acting honcho medical ship's officer of health, told a news group discussion on Thursday.
While the aged, pregnant women and those with watery immune systems should avoid consuming ready-to-eat meat, Williams said the "when in doubt, switch it out" messages applies to all consumers.
"I expect some more cases," Williams said.
The brooding period for listeria buttocks be as long as three months, and dissimilar most microbes that can cause nutrient sickness, listeria thrives at cool temperatures.
'I commend Maple Leaf for closing the plant down and doing a thorough inspection. I just wish there was a fail-proof system that would ensure that situations like this never arise.'
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