The Food and Drug Administration has identified a southern Indiana farm that produces cantaloupes linked to a deadly salmonella outbreak and says the operation has recalled its melons. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that of 178 people infected in 21 states, two have died and 62 have been hospitalized.
The Department for Public Health says cantaloupes tested in the state public health laboratory in Kentucky carry the same strain of salmonella associated with a statewide outbreak that health officials say is continuing. At least fifty people have been sickened by the salmonella, and health officials say it has been associated with two deaths.
