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Avoid cantaloupe unless you know its origins, CDC warns amid salmonella outbreak

U.S. food handling authorities are encouraging shoppers not to eat specific melon items, including some organic product cups, because of the gamble of sickness as they examine a deteriorating flare-up of salmonella contaminations.

The quantity of revealed contaminations has almost significantly increased in the fourteen days since the Food and Medication Organization and the Places for Infectious prevention and Counteraction reported the flare-up, which seems, by all accounts, to be connected to Malichita or Rudy brand melons.

Somewhere around 117 individuals in 34 states have become ill from the microbes, the CDC said in a report on Monday. Somewhere around 61 of them have been hospitalized and two have passed on.

Canada is additionally exploring the episode. As of Nov. 24, wellbeing authorities in the nation had affirmed 63 cases across five areas. No less than 17 people had been hospitalized and one had kicked the bucket.

The CDC exhorts against eating any melon or melon item that might have come from two brands — Malichita or Rudy.

Entire melons from these brands could have stickers with the number "4050" and the expression "Result of Mexico/produit du Mexique."



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