TORONTO — Laura Gieraltowski, lead of the Foodborne Outbreak Response Team at the CDC’s Outbreak Response and Prevention Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases, presented a review of multistate outbreaks of Salmonella infections linked to melons grown in Indiana.
Speaking at the annual conference of the International Association for Food Protection, Gieraltowski highlighted the outbreak in 2012, where Salmonella-contaminated cantaloupes from a farm in southwest Indiana as the beginning of a concerning pattern. The outbreak caused illness in 261 people across 24 states, resulting in 94 hospitalizations and three deaths.
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