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what the CDC is telling us is that the people who are sick have reported eating meat that has been sliced at a deli counter at a store and so if you go to the store and you buy prepackaged packages of deli meats that are sitting uh not coming from the deli counter but that are just sitting in the refrigerated food section of the case those kinds of products are not implicated in this outbreak with respect to hysteria especially this is really an illness of immuno compromised people so if you're over 65 if you're imuno compromised if you're pregnant those are the people that are really or perhaps a small child you are you are truly at risk um if you have deli meats that have been sliced at a deli counter in your refrigerator now and you are somebody who's imuno compromised I would caution you about eating those eating those products now what you can do although it's a little bit weird and most people don't do this with their with their deli meats but you can take those deli meats and you can heat them um uh in your microwave or you can heat them on the stove um and uh the the CDC is recommending that you heat to a temperature of 165 degrees Fahrenheit um this is an evolving situation um it may things may quiet down and we we may CDC may eventually declare the outbreak over or we may learn more which will cause the outbreak to expand