Listeria and Blue Bell Ice Cream: Contaminated Production Facilities and Illnesses Linked to Blue Bell Creameries

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  CDC recommends to not eat, serve, or sell any Blue Bell brand products. This complicated investigation of a listeriosis outbreak involves serious illnesses from 2010 through 2015 linked to two Blue Bell production facilities.
  
  Arizona
  
  • 1 case linked to ice cream made in Oklahoma facility
  
  Kansas
  
  • 5 cases in one hospital linked to ice cream made in Texas facility, resulting in 3 deaths
  
  Oklahoma
  
  • Listeria found in ice cream products and in Oklahoma facility where they were made
  
  • Facility closed indefinitely
  
  Texas
  
  • 3 cases in separate hospitals linked to ice cream made in Oklahoma facility
  
  • Listeria found in ice cream products made in Texas facility
  
  
• Subjects:
  Disease Outbreaks Foodborne Diseases Ice Cream Listeriosis / Epidemiology
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Place as Subject:
  Arizona ; Kansas ; Oklahoma ; Texas
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3e55c009765c84c1cd4bd6308287dfb7e346080ade5b1e8c1a5f85f9615693a6abc7b02c05513cb07259923eb1c95f23dcd3208c9cc516edb6c8a7def6044ef3
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