Deadly Cantaloupes: Listeria Outbreak Traced to Colorado

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With 13 confirmed fatalities so far, a series of listeria illnesses linked to recalled Colorado cantaloupes has become one of the deadliest food-related outbreaks in decades.
Before the toll is finished, it might be surpassed since the early 1970s only by the more than 50 deaths from a 1985 listeria outbreak in California related to a Mexican-style soft cheese.
Although the recall of Jensen Farms-raised Rocky Ford melons was announced Sept. 14, concern continues for several reasons.

The death toll released by the CDC Tuesday — including newly confirmed deaths in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Texas — surpassed the number of deaths linked to an outbreak of salmonella in peanuts almost three years ago. Nine people died in that outbreak.
 
That does not sound good at all! Has the listeria in these cantaloupes spread to the eastern part of the US, or just the western/central states? I don't normally freak out over stuff like this, but with 13 deaths from the toxic cantaloupes, this sounds pretty serious. Even with the recall, it would be tough to get all those cantaloupes out of stores.
 
Just only the states above your comment on my thread. Lucky for my state on the east side does not have this outbreak of listeria. Need to be more careful what we buy and eat, remember what happen in Germany, many people died before knowing what the source was and where it was coming from. Also there has been major problems with ground turkey, use to be ground beef was always making people ill. I know of a man that will eat raw hamburger meat and not get sick, i seen him put it in his mouth...yuck. I read a story once where a boy also died from putting raw hamburger meat in his mouth.
 
Here in Germany at least, raw ground meat is safe, as long as you eat it on the same day when you purchased it. This of course requires that the meat was fresh in the first place. I'd trust getting that only directly from a butcher or butcher department in a supermarket where they have fresh meat. After all, when you prepare hamburgers and the like, you have to have fresh meat anyway, if you want to avoid salmonella infections.
 
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