西班牙爆发猪肉李斯特菌疫情，1人死亡，100多人患病

西班牙爆发猪肉李斯特菌疫情，1人死亡，100多人患病

A 90-year-old woman in Spain has died, marking the first fatality linked to an outbreak of listeria that has sickened over 100 others. About half of those remain hospitalized, with authorities tracing the outbreak to a pork meat supplier in the southern region of Andalusia.

西班牙一名90岁的妇女死亡，这是导致100多人患病的李斯特菌爆发的首例死亡病例。其中约有一半仍在住院治疗，当局将疫情追踪到了安达卢西亚南部地区一家猪肉供应商。

The outbreak was first reported on Aug. 15, triggering a nationwide alert about products manufactured by the company, Magrudis. An investigation into food safety controls has been launched and officials are continuing to monitor the situation, the Associated Press reported.

8月15日首次报道了疫情，引发了全国范围内对该公司生产的产品的警报。美联社(Associated Press)报道称，已对食品安全控制展开调查，相关部门正紧密监控情况。

“We are monitoring this, the alerts have been sent out and we’ve ordered all the products (that have come) from this factory since May to be pulled from the shelves,” Maria Luisa Carcedo, Spain’s acting health minister, said, according to Reuters.

据路透社报道，西班牙代理卫生部长玛丽亚·路易莎·卡塞多表示：“我们正在监测这一情况，警报已经发出，自5月份以来，我们已下令下架了该工厂所有的产品(来自该工厂的产品)。”

Listeriosis is a serious infection typically caused by eating food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes, which results in an estimated 1,600 illnesses in the US each year. About 260 of those patients die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

李斯特菌病是一种严重的感染，通常是由食用被单核细胞李斯特菌污染的食物引起的，据估计，美国每年有1600例李斯特菌感染。根据美国疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)的数据，这些患者中约有260人死亡。

Listeriosis can cause a variety of symptoms, depending on the person and the part of the body affected, according to the CDC. For pregnant women, symptoms of invasive listeria may present as fever or other flu-like symptoms, but it can also cause miscarriage, stillbirth, premature delivery or life-threatening infection of the newborn. In non-pregnant patients, symptoms can include headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions.

根据疾病控制和预防中心的说法，李斯特菌病可以引起多种症状，具体取决于受感染的人和身体的不同部位。对于孕妇来说，侵袭性李斯特菌的症状可能表现为发烧或其他类似流感的症状，但它也可能导致流产、死产、早产或危及生命的新生儿感染。非孕妇的症状包括头痛、颈部僵硬、神志不清、失去平衡和抽搐。

Symptoms of invasive listeriosis typically are reported starting one to four weeks after eating food contaminated with Listeria, but there have been symptoms reported as late as 70 days post-exposure.

侵袭性李斯特菌病的症状通常在食用被李斯特菌污染的食物后1到4周出现，但也有症状在接触李斯特菌后70天出现。