South Africa: Lunch in the Time of Listeria - How to Protect Your Family and Pack a Safer Skaftin

Worried your child could be at risk of contracting the bug as they head back to school? You might have less to fear than you think.

South Africa's ongoing spate of listeria cases has claimed more than 60 lives in what the World Health Organisation (WHO) is now calling the world's biggest outbreak of the food-borne illness, according to an interview with WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier recorded by the United Nations News Centre.

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