The company issued a recall of some of its products after one of its machines produced ice creams infected with listeria.
The Blue Bell Creameries company recalled several of its products Friday, after three people died in Kansas after eating ice cream tainted with a deadly bacteria.
The ice cream products recalled by Blue Bell.
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Five adults who were receiving treatment at Wichita's Via Christi hospital between Jan. 2013 and Jan. 2015 subsequently became infected with a rare strain of listeria, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said in a statement.
Hospital records available for four of the patients showed they had all consumed ice cream that the hospital received from Blue Bell.
Three of the patients died, but department spokesperson Sara Belfry told the Associated Press that although the patients' listeriosis may have contributed to their deaths it was not the sole cause.
The hospital said it had been working closely with health department officials in the wake of the outbreak.
"Via Christi was not aware of any listeria contamination in the Blue Bell Creameries ice cream products and immediately removed all Blue Bell Creameries products from all Via Christi locations once the potential contamination was discovered," the hospital said in a statement.
Via Christi hospital.
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Listeriosis is a rare illness caused by eating foods contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and can be especially fatal on people with weak immune systems.
"Symptoms of listeriosis include fever, muscle aches, headache, stiff neck, confusion, loss of balance and convulsions," according to the Kansas health department.
On Feb. 12 of this year, the South Carolina Department of Health & Environmental Control notified U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials that strains of Listeria monocytogenes had been discovered in two Blue Bell products during routine testing.
The products were manufactured in the company's facility in Brenham, Texas, where health officials also found the bacteria in other ice creams made on the same product line.
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