Seven New Yorkers contracted listeria linked to sliced deli counter meat in a multistate outbreak that killed two and landed more than a dozen people in the hospital, health officials said Friday.
Twenty-eight people in 12 states reported being infected with the bacteria strain, though the number of cases and states is likely higher, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The two people who died were in Illinois and New Jersey. New York has the largest number of cases, the agency said.
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