The death toll has risen to 10 in the multistate listeria outbreak linked to a Boar’s Head plant in Virginia and the nationwide recall of potentially contaminated deli meats .
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a tenth death Wednesday in the latest update on the listeria outbreak . The death is the second in the state of New York, the CDC said. The agency reported two additional illnesses in the outbreak, bringing the total to 59 cases in 19 states. All of those infected were hospitalized.
When the CDC first reported the deadly outbreak July 19 , at the time the agency reported 28 persons infected and two deaths. That led to two waves of recalled products from Boar’s Head , eventually amounting to more than 7 million pounds of liverwurst and other meats produced at the Jarratt, Virginia plant where the contaminated liverwurst came from.
Timeline: Boar’s Head listeria outbreak: When it started, deaths, lawsuits, factory closure