--- title: Three Texans Sick from Blue Bell Listeria Contamination description: Three people from Texas have been added to the growing list of those sick with Listeria from tainted Blue Bell Creameries ice cream products. canonical: https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-09T19:57:54.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:17:18.063Z article:section: Health og:title: 3 Texans Got Sick From Contaminated Blue Bell Ice Cream og:description: The company expanded its recall this week og:url: https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf42ddc739f350c4c/6987e5d7cd1bba2ea86f8618/blue-bell-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Blue Bell Listeriosis og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 3 Texans Got Sick From Contaminated Blue Bell Ice Cream twitter:description: The company expanded its recall this week twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf42ddc739f350c4c/6987e5d7cd1bba2ea86f8618/blue-bell-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # 3 Texans Got Sick After Eating Blue Bell Ice Cream Contaminated With Listeria  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 9, 2015 7:57 PM UTC  A Blue Bell Cotton Candy Bar. A Blue Bell Cotton Candy Bar.AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 9, 2015 7:57 PM UTC Three people from Texas have been added to the growing list of those who got sick with Listeria from tainted Blue Bell Creameries ice cream products. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said the three people had been hospitalized for other reasons, but then fell ill after eating Blue Bell ice cream from a plant in Oklahoma, [Reuters reports](http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/09/us-usa-texas-listeria-idUSKBN0N022U20150409?feedType=RSS&feedName=domesticNews). This brings the total number of Listeria cases linked to Blue Bell up to eight; the other five were in a hospital in Kansas, and three of those people died. Blue Bell [expanded its product recall Tuesday](http://time.com/3804910/blue-bell-recall-expands/). Listeria is a food borne-bacteria that sickens 1,600 people in the U.S. annually, [according to the CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/listeria/index.html). **_Read more:_**[_How Ice Cream Gets Contaminated—And Sometimes Kills_](http://time.com/3744962/ice-cream-contaminated-kansas-blue-bell-creameries/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/"},"headline":"3 Texans Got Sick After Eating Blue Bell Ice Cream Contaminated With Listeria","datePublished":"2015-04-09T19:57:54.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:17:18.063Z","description":"The company expanded its recall this week","url":"https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/","keywords":["toxins","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf42ddc739f350c4c/6987e5d7cd1bba2ea86f8618/blue-bell-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Health","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf42ddc739f350c4c/6987e5d7cd1bba2ea86f8618/blue-bell-ice-cream.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Blue Bell Listeriosis","caption":"A Blue Bell Cotton Candy Bar.","creditText":"AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/health/","name":"Health"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/toxins/","name":"toxins"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3815986/blue-bell-listeria-texas/","name":"3 Texans Got Sick After Eating Blue Bell Ice Cream Contaminated With Listeria"}}]}] ```