{"id":68894,"date":"2026-09-25T10:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/?p=68894"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:37:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T08:37:58","slug":"listeria-monocytogenes-infections-are-increasing-worldwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/listeria-monocytogenes-infections-are-increasing-worldwide\/","title":{"rendered":"Listeria monocytogenes infections are increasing worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"isselectedend\">Infections caused by <em>Listeria monocytogenes<\/em>, a bacterium capable of surviving at low temperatures and particularly associated with foods such as soft cheeses, certain fruits and vegetables, unpasteurised milk and smoked fish, are increasing worldwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"isselectedend\"><strong>In Europe<\/strong>, where incidence rose from 0.4 to 0.69 cases per 100,000 inhabitants between 2010 and 2024, <strong>Listeria infections account for 32% of all deaths associated with foodborne outbreaks.<\/strong> The case-fatality rate of the disease is in fact very high, at 15.6%, and it mainly affects people with more vulnerable immune systems, such as the elderly and pregnant women\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Infections caused by Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium capable of surviving at low temperatures and particularly associated with foods such as soft cheeses, certain fruits and vegetables, unpasteurised milk and smoked fish, are increasing worldwide. In [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-and-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68895,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68894\/revisions\/68895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fondazioneguidovenosta.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}