Illnesses tied to raw tomatoes (CNN) {Salmonella}

[eppur_se_muova]

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- An outbreak of salmonella food poisoning first linked to uncooked tomatoes has now been reported in nine states, U.S. health officials said Tuesday.

Lab tests have confirmed 40 illnesses in Texas and New Mexico as the same type of salmonella, right down to the genetic fingerprint.

An investigation by Texas and New Mexico health authorities and the Indian Health Service tied those cases to uncooked large tomatoes.

At least 17 people in Texas and New Mexico have been hospitalized. None have died, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Thirty people have become sick with the same Salmonella Saintpaul infection in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Illinois and Indiana. CDC investigators are looking into whether tomatoes were culprits there, too.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/03/salmonella.tomatoes.ap/index.html

[mikelgb]

1. damn I love tomatos

[eppur_se_muova]

2. Just to be sure to cook them, until the cause is cleared up!

:hi:

[Kittycat]

4. Or grow your own.

Where you have greater control.

[mikelgb]

6. not the same as a nice juicy fresh tomato

I have a vine out back but it doesn't yield enough to satisfy

[frickaline]

3. me too, this is so bad!

[Wiley50]

5. "Would You Care For Some Fresh Tomatoes and Salmon, Ella?" Really it's quite good. "

But it seems to be causing a spot of indigestion.

[damntexdem]

7. Yikes, poisonous cousins of deadly nightshade!

They're poison, they're poison! It's the attack ofthe killer tomatoes!!!!

[malaise]

8. Damn I live on tomatoes

Well those on our bushes are perfect.

[malaise]

9. Damn I live on tomatoes

Well those on our bushes are perfect.