https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/04/26/salmonella-outbreak-reaches-10-states-are-you-at-risk.aspxA salmonella outbreak has sickened 117 people across 10 states, according to a Food Safety Alert from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC and the Food and Drug Administration believe the source of the outbreak is contaminated pre-cutenCommunityServer 2008.5 SP1 (Debug Build: 31106.3070)https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/04/26/salmonella-outbreak-reaches-10-states-are-you-at-risk.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9512534/28/2019 10:49:37 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:951253333mary<p>Never EVER purchase pre cut anything!</p> https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/04/26/salmonella-outbreak-reaches-10-states-are-you-at-risk.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9512524/28/2019 10:47:24 AM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:951252333mary<p>Asked my Mom in Wisconsin how it could be melons! &nbsp;She told me they were fertilized with chicken manure and when cut the bacteria was brought into the fruit. Made sense.</p> <p>Have been seriously scrubbing every type melon since learning that--with soap.</p> https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/04/26/salmonella-outbreak-reaches-10-states-are-you-at-risk.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9511884/27/2019 4:21:37 PM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:951188HappyHealthy15<p>It appears that these melons were conventional. Funny how all the chemical spraying failed to kill all the bacteria.</p> https://blogs.mercola.com:443/sites/vitalvotes/archive/2019/04/26/salmonella-outbreak-reaches-10-states-are-you-at-risk.aspx?ShowAllComments=True#9509584/26/2019 8:28:19 PM24451277-a5aa-4add-96dc-64081bfd86fa:950958Evelyn47<p>It helps a ton if you scrub the heck out of your 🍈</p> <p>before cutting into it...</p>