{"id":21163,"date":"2023-12-08T02:36:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21163"},"modified":"2023-12-08T02:36:52","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T08:36:52","slug":"deaths-from-tainted-cantaloupe-rise-to-8-in-u-s-and-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=21163","title":{"rendered":"Deaths from tainted cantaloupe rise to 8 in U.S. and Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/cdc-warns-not-eat-pre-cut-cantaloupe-18-new-illnesses-rcna127517\">salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe<\/a>&nbsp;has now killed eight people \u2014 three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Dozens more illnesses were reported by both countries. In the U.S., at least 230 people have been ill in 38 states and 96 have been hospitalized since mid-November, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/salmonella\/sundsvall-11-23\/index.html\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The tainted cantaloupe was also shipped to Canada, where 129 cases have been reported, including 44 hospitalizations, health officials reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Many of the people who fell ill reported eating pre-cut cantaloupe in clamshell packages and trays sold in stores. Consumers should not buy, eat or serve cantaloupe, if they don\u2019t know the source, the CDC said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">New recalls of whole and pre-cut fruit have been added to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/major-product-recalls\/2023-recalls-food-products-associated-cantaloupes-due-potential-risk-salmonella\">growing list,<\/a>&nbsp;the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said. Last week,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/cut-fruit-express-recalls-fresh-cut-fruit-mix-containing-cantaloupe-because-possible-health-risk\">Cut Fruit Express<\/a>&nbsp;initiated a recall of cantaloupe chunks and fruit mixes containing cantaloupe. On Tuesday,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/safety\/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts\/tgd-cuts-llc-recalls-certain-fresh-cut-fruit-cup-clamshell-and-tray-products-due-possible-health\">TGD Cuts, LLC<\/a>&nbsp;launched a recall of specific fresh fruit cup, clamshell and tray products that contained cantaloupe from the company TruFresh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Health officials are still working to determine whether additional products are linked to the illnesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Salmonella can cause serious illness in young children, people older than 65 and those with weakened immune systems.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/health\/health-news\/deaths-tainted-cantaloupe-increase-8-us-canada-rcna128664\">Nbcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A&nbsp;salmonella outbreak tied to tainted cantaloupe&nbsp;has now killed eight people \u2014 three in the U.S. and five in Canada, health officials reported Thursday. Dozens more illnesses were reported by both countries. In the U.S., at least 230 people have been ill in 38 states and 96 have been hospitalized since mid-November, according to the&nbsp;Centers for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":21164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5784],"tags":[24545,24853,1891,23667,24852,24851],"class_list":["post-21163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-cantaloupe","tag-clamshell-packaging","tag-contamination","tag-pre-cut","tag-rising-death-toll","tag-store-bought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21165,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21163\/revisions\/21165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}