article_snippet: Listeria is a food-borne illness that is especially dangerous to pregnant women, newborns, the elderly, those with compromised immune systems, and other serious conditions (like diabetes, kidney failure, liver disease, and HIV).
article_snippet: Listeria rarely causes serious illness in healthy people and can be treated with antibiotics.
article_snippet: Because it can be so serious for some people, outbreaks of listeria generally cause more deaths than other pathogens such as salmonella or E. coli.
article_snippet: Listeriosis is a life-threatening infection caused by eating food contaminated with bacteria called Listeria monocytogenes, the CDC the CDC said.
article_snippet: Almost everyone who is diagnosed with listeriosis has invasive infection, meaning the bacteria spread from Almost everyone who is diagnosed with listeriosis intestines to the blood, causing bloodstream infection, or to the central nervous system, causing meningitis.
article_snippet: Although people can sometimes develop listeriosis up to two months after eating contaminated food, symptoms usually start within several days.
article_snippet: Listeriosis is treated with antibiotics, the CDC the CDC said.