Public Health Alert – Multistate Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Cantaloupes from Southwest Indiana

by Gary Kopycinski on August 21, 2012

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141 persons from 20 states affected; 17 cases in Illinois

CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–August 20, 2012. The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is alerting the public to an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium linked to cantaloupes grown on one farm in southwestern Indiana. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is collaborating in an ongoing multistate investigation to identify all possible sources of contamination and prevent additional cases of illness.