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    Salmonella outbreak linked to melon

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Yet another deadly Salmonella outbreak this time being linked to contaminated cantaloupe grown in Indiana food safety experts say it's a thirteenth outbreaks since the early ninety's.

So why does this keep happening let's ask Fox News medical -- doctors.

Nothing -- -- doctor Simonyi are -- seems to be that Cannell Lopes melons seem to be problematic why.

Well if you look at the history of this almost every year we have this issue every year we have few people getting someone off.

And just the nature of candle by itself if you look at the coverage of it is very different water -- -- O'Malley can watch very carefully it's easy it's smooth skin with a candle -- You have all these -- some bumps in the bacteria can really grow into it and it's porous can get inside also when you actually cut the cantaloupe.

The bacteria could easily enter the the -- and cause this kind of -- it's going on the ground so there's a lot of bacteria is and feces animal feces.

That's contaminated.

Also there's a whole farming hygiene and didn't allow farmers may or may not really wash their hands so this kind of bacteria can -- -- -- -- we have this -- almost for the last decade.

Every year we see people get really sick and get die from -- Let's take a look at the outbreak investigations as you talk about 200678.

And almost every year it's a different foods from ground beef -- Live poultry Turkey burgers alfalfa sprouts.

Eggs the stock she has peanut butter -- produce dry pet food.

Veggie booty and tomatoes so so what are people supposed to do what should people do in their home.

Number one pay attention to all their announcement that -- -- these days for example some are coming from cantaloupe in Kentucky.

Look at the labels and if you have bought it from there story that don't touch it.

A lot of another susceptible are older native population HIV or low immune compromised kind of patience.

So make sure -- do you don't give it to them because they're very susceptible to this.

When it comes to meat or chicken or eggs you wanna make sure that you really cool kid well -- if there is bacteria it would get rid of it.

And always refrigerate.

Your food in cantaloupe should not be out more than two hours if it's not unnoticed if you're not be eating it.

Refrigerated so -- really get rid of this bacteria.

And otherwise you suggest because talent seems to be always affected to just.

Not yet if you -- well that's one choice if you're really afraid -- and there are so many other fruits -- vegetables out there and stick to that but ultimately.

Washing hands and hands sanitized as is always the -- If you're you know cutting chicken or beef.

Make sure that whole area is really sanitized so the bacteria can go for one place or another.

And -- business over the basic things that you can do to really cut down on the number of bacteria is a serious an additional people are dying from the sale are as a seriously big thing is that you don't really recognize that this factor can get into your system can get too sick.

Within two hours this result of its own.

But if you feel dehydrated and really sick make sure you go to the hospital is your doctor immediately right -- have a great rest -- -- just.

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