date:Jan 10, 2023
the UK. Reviewing STEC surveillance questionnaire data and analysis of responses from a modified hypothesis-generating questionnaire, implicated eating pre-cut watermelon from a retailer sourced from Europe as the vehicle of infection.
Watermelons came from three businesses in Spain. Melon was cut at a manufacturing facility in England and had a shelf life of five to six days. No whole or pre-cut watermelon samples in production in the days prior to symptom onset in cases were available for tes