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INFORMATION IN THE COMING MONTHS. FIVE ON YOUR HEALTH THIS MORNING. THE CDC IS ISSUING AN ALERT ABOUT A LISTERIA OUTBREAK INVOLVING DELI MEAT. 28 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SICKENED ACROSS 12 STATES. THAT INCLUDES TWO IN MASSACHUSETTS. TWO PEOPLE HAVE DIED, ONE IN NEW JERSEY, ANOTHER IN ILLINOIS. THE CDC SAYS PEOPLE WHO GOT SICK REPORTED EATING MEAT SLICED AT DELI COUNTERS, NOT PREPACKAGED DELI MEAT. LISTERIA IS ESPECIALLY HARMFUL FOR ANYONE WHO'S PREGNANT. AGE 65 OR OLDER, OR HAS A WEAKENED IMMUNE SYSTEM AND FOR THOSE PEOPLE, THE CDC RECOMMENDS NOT EATING DELI