Connecticut Warns of Listeria in El Abuelito Queso Fresco Cheese; One Ill
The Connecticut Department of Public Health is warning consumers that there is Listeria in El Abuelito Queso Fresco cheese. Laboratory testing found the pathogen in one lot of that cheese that was collected from a Connecticut retail food store last week. One Connecticut resident is sick after allegedly eating that brand.
There is a multistate Listeria monocytogenes outbreak that is linked to Hispanic-style soft and fresh cheeses that the FDA and CDC announced late last week. Seven people in four states are sick in that outbreak; one of the patients lives in Connecticut. The others live in Maryland (4), New York (1), and Virginia (1).
Once we first heard about the South African variant of the COVID-19 virus, you knew it was just a matter of time before someone in Connecticut came down with it.
Governor Ned Lamont’s office announced Monday the first case of the so-called “South African” COVID variant has been detected in a Connecticut patient. In a press release officials said this is the first known case of the variant in a Connecticut resident. The patient, a Fairfield County resident between the ages of 60-70, has not reported any recent travel and is currently hospitalized out of state, according to officials. “The individual’s.