# Listeria monocytogenes outbreak — Multistate, 1998-10
> **Food** · Confirmed · 101 ill / 101 hosp / 21 deaths
## Outbreak
- **NORS ID:** NORS-1722785467be
- **Date:** 1998-10
- **State:** Multistate
- **Primary mode:** Food
- **Etiology:** Listeria monocytogenes
- **Etiology status:** Confirmed
- **Setting:** Other
## Impact
- **Illnesses:** 101
- **Hospitalizations:** 101
- **Deaths:** 21
## Food vehicle

- **Food:** hot dog, unspecified
- **Contaminated ingredient:** —
- **IFSAC category:** N/A

## Source
- [NORS Dashboard](https://wwwn.cdc.gov/norsdashboard/)
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