14 sick with 5 hospitalized with 1 death.
CDC: “When in doubt, don’t eat, sell, or serve papayas; just throw them out.”
This outbreak is one of four separate outbreaks currently under investigation that are linked to imported Maradol papayas from Mexico
This past spring, CDC, public health and regulatory officials in several states, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration investigated a multistate outbreak of Salmonella Anatum infections.
Fourteen people infected with the outbreak strain of Salmonella Anatum were reported from three states. Illnesses started on dates ranging from December 20, 2016, to April 8, 2017. Five ill people were hospitalized. One death was reported from California.
On September 4, 2017, FDA testing identified the outbreak strain of Salmonella Anatum from a sample taken from an imported papaya at the U.S.-Mexico border. Epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback evidence indicates that Maradol papayas imported by Bravo Produce Inc. of San Ysidro, California, are the likely source of this multistate outbreak. On September 10, 2017, Bravo Produce Inc. recalled Maradol papayas packed by Frutas Selectas de Tijuana, S. de RL de CV. The papayas were distributed to California from August 10 to August 29, 2017.
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