article_snippet.sent: The recall, the first in the company's 108-year history, began when five patients at Via Christi St. Francis hospital in Wichita, Kansas, became ill with listeriosis while hospitalized at some point from December 2013 to January 2015.
article_snippet.sent: Three of five patients at Via Christi St. Francis hospital in Wichita, Kansas later died.
article_snippet.sent: Four of the six patients were hospitalized in Texas for unrelated problems before developing listeriosis, according to the CDC.