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• Position: STATELINE - Listeria monocytogenes - Brief article

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Listeria monocytogenes sickens nearly 1,600 people every year in the United States, killing about 250 of them, according to the Centers for Disease Control. It's the third deadliest food-born pathogen. The outbreak this year from contaminated cantaloupes afected 139 people from 28 states, killing 29 of them, as of Nov. 1. State reporting of diseases to the CDC is voluntary and required at the state level only by state legislation or regulation. Although the list of diseases that must be reported...