Boar's Head recalls 7M more pounds of deli meat amid hospitalizations in NY, NJ due to listeria

LOREN. WE ARE FOLLOWING A DEVELOPING STORY IMPACTING DELIS AND BODEGAS ALL ACROSS NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY. BOAR BOAR'S HEAD IS NOW EXPANDING ITS RECALL TO 7 MILLION POUNDS OF DELI MEAT LINKED TO A DEADLY LISTERIA OUTBREAK. THAT OUTBREAK HAS ALREADY SENT 12 PEOPLE TO THE HOSPITAL IN NEW YORK, AND TWO IN NEW JERSEY, INCLUDING ONE PERSON WHO DIED. NEW JERSEY REPORTER ANTHONY JOHNSON LIVE IN CLIFTON. ANTHONY >> YES, SANDRA, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU THAT THE STOP AND SHOP STORES IN OUR REGION HAVE ALREADY CLEANED OUT ALL OF THEIR DELI COUNTERS. >> THEY SANITIZED ALL OF THEM, AND THEN THEY WERE ABLE TO REOPEN AFTER GETTING RID OF ALL OF THE CONTAMINATED PRODUCTS OR ANYTHING THAT CAME IN CONTACT, POTENTIALLY WITH CONTAMINATED PRODUCTS. THEY GOT RID OF ALL OF THAT BY 4:00 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. BUT THIS IS CERTAINLY IMPACTED PEOPLE IN OUR REGION. THERE IS A GROWING CRISIS FOR DELI MEAT LOVERS, ESPECIALLY CUSTOMERS OF BOAR'S HEAD PRODUCTS. THE COMPANY IS RECALLING AN ADDITIONAL 7 MILLION POUNDS OF DELI MEAT FOLLOWING A DEADLY OUTBREAK OF LISTERIA FOOD POISONING. THE NEW RECALL INCLUDES 71 PRODUCTS UNDER THE BOAR'S HEAD AND OLD COUNTRY BRANDS. >> I SAW A WEEK OR TWO AGO IN THE NEWS AND I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL DONE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS INVESTIGATING THE LATEST OUTBREAK, WHICH FOLLOWS AN EARLIER RECALL OF MORE THAN 200,000 POUNDS OF SLICED DELI, POULTRY AND MEAT, INCLUDING LIVERWURST, HAM, SALAMI, BOLOGNA AND OTHER PRODUCTS MADE AT THE COMPANY'S VIRGINIA PLANT GROCERY CHAIN. >> STOP AND SHOP CLOSED ALL OF ITS STORES, DELI YESTERDAY FOR A DEEP CLEAN. >> THEY SAID THEY HAVE NOTHING. >> THE RECALLS ARE TIED TO AN ONGOING OUTBREAK OF LISTERIA POISONING THAT'S KILLED TWO PEOPLE AND SICKENED NEARLY THREE DOZEN PEOPLE IN 13 STATES. LISTERIA TYPICALLY CAUSES FEVER, MUSCLE ACHES AND TIREDNESS, AND AFFECTS AN ESTIMATED 1600 PEOPLE YEARLY. AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 260 PEOPLE DIE FROM THE INFECTION YEARLY. IT IS ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS FOR PEOPLE OVER 65. THOSE WITH WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEMS AND PREGNANT WOMEN. YEAH, ALL OF THOSE PEOPLE THAT CAME DOWN WITH THE ILLNESS, PRETTY MUCH ALL OF THEM HAD TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL TO BE TREATED FOR THE LISTERIA POISONING INFECTION. AT THIS POINT IN TIME, ALL OF THOSE INFECTIONS BEGAN IN ABOUT MID MAY AND HAVE GONE THROUGH MID-JULY. THAT IS THE LATEST LIVE FROM