One dead in the Ozarks after eating cantaloupe
As the fear over contaminated cantaloupe continues, The Ozarks Sentinel has learned that one person in the Ozarks has died after eating one with the deadly listeria.
The Springfield-Greene County Health Department has confirmed one of two people suffering from listeria has died. Health department officials say they are in the process of investigating both cases, but are not able to confirm if either are linked to the cantaloupe recall out of Colorado, at this time.
Health officials say the cantaloupe shipments in question were delivered to Missouri between July 29 and September 10. Illinois, Wyoming, Utah, Tennessee, Colorado, Texas, Minnesota, Kansas, New Mexico
Wal-Mart, Price-Cutter, and Smillie’s all carried cantaloupe from the Rocky Ford region.
The contaminated melons were whole fruit from Jensen Farms in the Rocky Ford region of Colorado and have been recalled. Twenty-two people have so far been sickened in seven states.
Two deaths have been confirmed by CDC, one each in Colorado and New Mexico, and two more in New Mexico are under investigation.
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