date:Aug 16, 2022
A Salmonella outbreak in Norway with almost 20 people sick has been linked to watermelon.
Folkehelseinstituttet (FHI) reported that of 13 ill people interviewed so far, all of them ate watermelon in the days before becoming sick. The melons were bought in various retail stores.
Eighteen people are part of the monophasic Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak and eight of them were hospitalized.
Patients are aged between 1 and 87 years old, 10 are men and eight women. They live in six different parts