Listeria Outbreak in Cantaloupe Kills 13: Are You Avoiding Cantaloupe?

for a couple a years

I don't like it, therefore, I have nothing to worry about.

Yes, but mostly because it tastes like cantaloupe.

I live in michigan, I been eating cantalope, because seem to help I'm fighting cancer.
I don't believe in michigan there has any outbreak. If you heard anything please let me
know.

Vey rarely eat cantaloupe

I am not a cantaloupe lover, but my mother loves them, I had just purchased one for her when news broke about them not being safe to eat, we had her to pitch it.

because i am immune to listeria

I tossed one out today,and I love Cantaloupe. I heard today that someone here in Louisiana also got sick.

Staying away from it like the plague.

Not because of the disease but because I just don't ordinarily eat cantaloupe anyways so it really doesn't affect me (please add a "none of the above" option some next time around)

Cantaloupe isn't all that!

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It is not a matter of taking any chances.....just WASH THE FRUIT. Just like any other fruit of veggie you use.

Hello, do you eat the outside of the fruit? I believe the fruit is watered with contaminated water as it is growing... It is in the plant juice...it is the fruit. We are what we eat, planted are their soil and water from which they are grown. Makes sense to me.

Ummmmm, no, but the knife passes through the skin of the melon and contaminates the inside of the melon.


"Health officials think people may have been sickened when they cut into their cantaloupe, bringing listeria on the outside of the fruit to the inside."

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I eat cantaloupe yesterday... it seams that it can take weeks before you get sick. We'll see

More people were killed in Mexico this weekend.

Shall I avoid Mexicans?

Thanks for the notice!

I'm not taking chances cause I grew my own this year so no problem here eating home grown cantaloupe.

I feel bad for those who died, but I don't even lile it.

Unless its from my organic garden, but then i know its safe.

I never liked it. Saw a Mexican lady running a juice stand today on the corner, and she had a mountain of them. Nobody was touching them. I don't blame them.

13 people die and that's the worst in the last decade? Man. I'm thinking food-borne illnesses probably aren't worth the time thinking about. Sounds like looking over my left shoulder a second time before crossing a slow street would do more than worrying about food-borne illnesses.

I don't need to worry at all about this cause I mostly never eat Cantaloupe.

Just another scare tactic......

food standards arent really top of the bill in guadaloupe so i wait a litle(nice country)

Read this: (84 people sick, 15 dead... broken down by the state): http://yourjewishnews.com/116...

Right now, I'm not eating any and I love cantaloupe.

Yes I am and it has been hard for I love canaloupe! But do not want to take a chance of getting sick from one!!! By the way it is now 19 people have died from it and may be higher soon also!

The source of the lysteria has been located it is the Jennsen farm in Colorado. I love cantaloupe and always wash the melon thoroughly before cutting it.

I though it was Bloom Farms? Also I like cantaloupe so if you could tell me how I know what farm it came from that would be great :)

You can check on the internet. Fox News did a bit on it and showed the label on the melon and the farm it came from in Colorado. They are Rocky Ford Melons. I never heard anything about the Bloom Farms. The point stressed was to make certain that you wash all fruits and vegetables. With a melon, if you don't, the bacteria or virus would be on the knife blade from cutting through the Rind.

So if I look it up I can see were the fruit at my grocery store came from? (thanks alot for your help too!)

Your grocery store can tell you. Look at the sticker on the melon. It says where it is from. All the Jennsen farm cataloupes have been recalled. It has been a few weeks so I doubt that there are any left in the stores. They rippen pretty fast.

Ok thanks very much.

I avoid these death-cantaloupe like the plague.

.... but these cantaloupe flavored ice creams they just started selling at the market are delicious.

Nothing but scare tactics... I don't eat fake food from big corporation businesses I prefer the real food, organic. Not surprised because of all the pesticides and sh-t they put on their foods that people will get sick!

How ironic it would be.

13 people? There are 312,340,000 in the United States. This is a very minor risk.

Listeria is to be taken seriously. This is the first I've ever heard of it infecting melons-

This is why it's so important to make sure those cheeses and MILK are pasteurized.. this isn't a disease to take lightly.