Death Toll From Multistate Listeria Outbreak Related to Deli Meats Rises to 9: CDC

Customers who bought contaminated meat products are advised to either discard them or return them to the store for a full refund.

An electron micrograph of a Listeria bacterium in tissue, in a 2002 image from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Elizabeth White/CDC/Reuters

Six more people have been hospitalized after a multistate listeria outbreak linked to contaminated meat, according to an Aug. 28 update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So far, nine people have died and nearly 60 have been hospitalized due to the outbreak, which relates to Boar’s Head deli meat, specifically Strassburger Brand Liverwurst. The company first recalled the product on July 25.