HEALTH MANAGEMENT. Outbreak of Listeria warning prompt, voluntary recall of Ford rock cantaloupe

Health officials have issued a warning for cantaloupes area producers of melon revered the Ford rock of the State of Colorado, to the United States in an outbreak of bacteria blamed for four deaths in the State and the Mexico New, disturbing of farmers who depend on sales of the fruit.
The warning of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came after many cases of a strain of Listeria have been reported in six States, including at least 11 Colorado, 10 of the New-Mexico, two in Texas and one each in Indiana, Nebraska and Oklahoma.
The Agency said that it is the first outbreak of Listeria associated with cantaloupe in the United States. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration said that he had not recalled melons, while working to locate the source.
Update: Jensen firm in Holly, Colorado, is voluntarily recalling cantaloupe that it shipped to Illinois, Wyoming, Tennessee, Utah, Texas, Colorado, Minnesota, Kansas, New-Mexico, North Carolina, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania between July 29 and September 10.
Rocky cantaloupes Ford, named for an area along the old Santa Fe Trail about 130 miles (200 km) southeast of Denver, are appreciated for their above average sugar content. W.C. Fields told bald guys have "a head shaped like a cantaloupe Rocky Ford", and Lucile Ball had delivered to his dressing room melons.
"This is really ridiculous." You can obtain Listeria any where. "Melons to eat every day," said Kent Lusk, a fifth generation farmer cantaloupe of Rocky Ford.
Commissioner of the Colorado Agriculture, John Salazar, said that the contamination has perhaps not cantaloupe, but a truck or other source. But several Colorado grocery chains pulled their supplies as a precautionary measure, and at the New-Mexico issued a voluntary recall. State Bureau of environmental health inspectors have been collecting samples of cantaloupe grocery stores and distributors across the New Mexico for laboratory analysis.
Listeriosis is a serious infection usually caused by ingestion of food contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes. The disease primarily affects the elderly, pregnant women, infants and adults with weakened immune systems.
Director of the health of the Colorado Chris Urbina said of people who are the people of included high risk 60 and older, those whose immune system is weakened of transplants and persons with chronic diseases. Symptoms may include fever, muscle aches, diarrhea, headache of head, neck stiffness, confusion and seizures. Listeriosis can cause miscarriages and stillbirths.
The CDC warning advised people with cantaloupes home to see if they came from the region of Rocky Ford and if yes, do not eat melons are in a group vulnerable. Health application people throw cantaloupes Rocky Ford put them in a closed plastic bag before putting them in the trash.
The fatal cases in the New-Mexico included a man 93 years old, originally from the County of Bernalillo, a 61-year-old woman, originally from the County of Curry and a man of 63 years, originally from the County of Bernalillo. Mark Salley, spokesman for the Department of the Colorado public health and environment, said the deceased in Colorado was not to be identified.

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