Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak Grows – 23 Dead and 116 Infected in 25 States As of 9am EDT on October 11, 2011, a total of 116 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 25 states.  In addition, the [...]

Oklahoma Reports 11 Illnesses and 1 Fatality Linked to Cantaloupe As of October 7, 2011, 21 deaths have been confirmed and at least 109 illnesses have been reported among people in at least 24 states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Eleven of those illnesses, and one death, are in Oklahoma, [...]

Listeria Claims 13 Victims and 5 Deaths in New Mexico New Mexico, neighbor to Colorado, which is at the center of the deadliest outbreak of Listeria in recent U.S. memory, has been home to nearly a quarter of those who have died and approximately 12% of those who have been made ill.  And these numbers [...]

Rocky Ford Cantaloupe Center of Outbreak: 109 Victims and Rising As of 9am EDT on October 6, 2011, a total of 109 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported to CDC from 23 states. All illnesses started on or after July 31, 2011.  The number of infected [...]

Five Listeria Cases Linked to Tainted Cantaloupe in El Paso County, 1 Death Fernando Gonzalez, lead epidemiologist for the City of El Paso’s health department, has confirmed a second case of listeria in the City of El Paso, Texas.   The patient is a 77-year-old woman who has underlying medical conditions, he said, who was initially [...]

New York Cantaloupe Distributor Recalls Cut Cantaloupe Fruit Fresh Up, Inc. of Depew, New York yesterday issued a recall of approximately 4,800 individual packages of Fresh Cut Cantaloupe and Cut Mixed Fruit containing Cantaloupe due to potential contamination with Listeria monocytogenes. The Fruit Fresh Up, Inc. recall is part of a larger recall involving cantaloupe [...]

Pregnant Woman in Iowa Loses Baby after Eating Tainted Cantaloupe MSNBC has reported that a pregnant Iowa woman has suffered a miscarriage after contracting a listeria infection tied to tainted cantaloupe, underscoring the seriousness of the ongoing outbreak in mothers-to-be.    Dr. Patricia Quinlisk, the Iowa Department of Public Health medical examiner, interviewed by local KCCI, [...]

Listeria Outbreak Among Deadliest in U.S. History The death and victims counts continue to rise in the nationwide listeria outbreak linked to contaminated Jensen Farms cantaloupe. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a total of 100 persons infected with any of the four outbreak-associated strains of Listeria monocytogenes have been reported [...]

Two Wisconsin Residents Hospitalized with Listeria before State Linked to Outbreak Two elderly southeastern Wisconsin residents, one from Milwaukee County and the other from Racine County, were hospitalized last month after they were sickened by listeria, according to Stephanie Smiley, spokeswoman for the state Department of Health Services. Both individuals have now been released from [...]

Simon & Luke Files Tainted Cantaloupe Lawsuit Texas-based food safety firm Simon & Luke today filed a lawsuit on behalf of one of the 84 victims nationwide that have been sickened by cantaloupe contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.  The cantaloupes were produced by Jensen Farms in Colorado and distributed by Texas-based Frontera Produce, Ltd. The lawsuit [...]