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Cantaloupes Blamed for 141 Salmonella Cases, Including Two Deaths
Source: ABC News
Cantaloupes Blamed for 141 Salmonella Cases, Including Two Deaths
By SYDNEY LUPKIN
Aug. 18, 2012
Health officials have learned that cantaloupes are to blame for a salmonella outbreak that has infected 141 people in 20 states, sending 31 people to the hospital and killing two.
More than a third of those salmonella Typhimurium cases happened in Kentucky, which is also where both deaths occurred, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The bad melons came from a farm in southwestern Indiana, according to the CDC, which cites an investigation by federal, state, and local agencies. Officials interviewed 24 ill patients, and discovered that 18 ate cantaloupes prior to becoming ill.
They then found the bacteria in two cantaloupes purchased at a grocery stores.
Cantaloupes often bear a sticker that says where they were grown, so health officials have advised consumers to check the sticker and throw away melons from Indiana.
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By SYDNEY LUPKIN
Aug. 18, 2012
Health officials have learned that cantaloupes are to blame for a salmonella outbreak that has infected 141 people in 20 states, sending 31 people to the hospital and killing two.
More than a third of those salmonella Typhimurium cases happened in Kentucky, which is also where both deaths occurred, according to the Centers for Disease Control. The bad melons came from a farm in southwestern Indiana, according to the CDC, which cites an investigation by federal, state, and local agencies. Officials interviewed 24 ill patients, and discovered that 18 ate cantaloupes prior to becoming ill.
They then found the bacteria in two cantaloupes purchased at a grocery stores.
Cantaloupes often bear a sticker that says where they were grown, so health officials have advised consumers to check the sticker and throw away melons from Indiana.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/salmonella-outbreak-linked-cantaloupes-infects-141-kills/story?id=17033413
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A good reminder of one basic function of federal, state and local *public health* agencies.
Sorry, no can do with this nonsense. Notice how tomatoes, green onions, lettuce, melons are infecting and killing people and rarely do you hear the same with dead meat outbreaks occurring as often? And salmonella COMES FROM ANIMALS (mainly chickens, if I am not mistaken).
Either this farm had an irrigation system which caused cross-contamination (factory farms are notoriously dirty) or it was done by design. Big Pharma and the Dead Tortured Cow Association are powerful lobbies... 
