Friday, September 23, 2011

Listeria Death

The Mesa County Health Department says an elderly person has died of listeria in Mesa County, and a second is hospitalized with Listeria.  Neither case has been positively linked to the current cantaloupe outbreak. Health officials want let people know that both of these cases involve people at high risk of contracting Listeriosis.  You can get more information from the county's website, health.mesacounty.us.