Thursday, September 29, 2011

News Flash: Listeria in Cantaloupes: Deadliest Outbreak in a Decade

By Brenda Goodman
WebMD Health News  (click here to read the full report)

Reviewed by Laura J. Martin, MD

Sept. 28, 2011 -- The CDC says 72 people have been sickened and 13 have died as a result of eating cantaloupes tainted with listeria bacteria, making it the deadliest outbreak of food-borne illness in the U.S. in a decade.

State officials say they are investigating three more deaths -- one each in New Mexico, Kansas, and Wyoming -- that may also be connected to the contaminated Colorado cantaloupes.

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