Sometimes it seems like eating clean can be dangerous! You want to consume a large amount of fruits and vegetables and then something like this happens. Tomatoes are being recalled due to a salmonella outbreak and health officials are saying to avoid eating tomatoes uncooked.
The state of Texas has seem to had the most number of salmonella cases but eight other states have also been affected. Nationwide 40 people have become ill and 17 have been hospitalized.
Dr. Herbert DuPont, director of the University of Texas School of Public Health's infectious disease center, said salmonella infections strike 1.4 million Americans annually and are the second-most common cause of bacterial diarrhea.
"For most people, it causes a week of misery," he said. But for children younger than 3 years, adults 65 and older, people with compromised immune systems, sickle cell patients, and people with inflammatory bowel disease or on corticosteroids, the infection can be deadly. [Source: chron.com]
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Wow. That is rather disheartening. Is this just a problem in the US or is it affecting tomatoes in other countries too? I’ve not heard anything about this in the UK.
Tomatoes are my favorite vegetable. I eat almost all my meals with tomatoes cooked or not cooked into it. This kind of scares me, I hope I don’t get sick.
all you have have to do is was your veggies. as a microbiologist, i will tell you that one is more likely to get e. coli or salmonella poisoning from raw (not cleaned) veggies, than under cooked meat.
First of all tomatoes are a fruit and not a vegetable…Wash your fruit real well.