LANCASTER, Pa (WTHM) The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that a Lancaster County dairy farm is linked to a multistate outbreak of Listeria. The CDC announced on its website that raw milk from Millers Organic Farm in Bird-in-Hand was tied to a death in Florida and a sickness in California. Officials said it was a strain of Listeria from the raw milk that caused the sickness in 2014, but the source was not known until Jan. 29 of this year. Both victims were over the age of 70.
The CDC said it is concerned that more raw milk products from the farm could be contaminated. Health officials said drinking unpasteurized milk comes with the risk of carrying deadly bacteria such as: Listeria, E. coli, and Campylobacter.
Millers Organic Farm was unavailable for comment.