Listeriosis -- Australia
The NSW [New South Wales, Australia] Food Authority is advising consumers who are most vulnerable to listeria infection -- such as older persons, and people who have weakened immune systems due to illness or pregnancy -- to avoid eating rockmelon [also called cantaloupe] after a recent spike in listeriosis cases in elderly people has been linked to the fruit. As a precaution, consumers [particularly those who are elderly, pregnant or immune compromised] who may have rockmelon already in their
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?5659577&promed&0
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