# Listeria monocytogenes outbreak — Multistate, 2016-02
> **Food** · Confirmed · 6 ill / 6 hosp / 2 deaths
## Outbreak
- **NORS ID:** NORS-1f4299db7354
- **Date:** 2016-02
- **State:** Multistate
- **Primary mode:** Food
- **Etiology:** Listeria monocytogenes
- **Etiology status:** Confirmed
- **Setting:** Unknown
## Impact
- **Illnesses:** 6
- **Hospitalizations:** 6
- **Deaths:** 2
## Food vehicle

- **Food:** watermelon
- **Contaminated ingredient:** watermelon
- **IFSAC category:** Fruits

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