Do not eat caramel apples - 5 dead and 28 sick in past 2 months.

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The CDC is urging consumers not to eat "commercially produced, prepackaged caramel apples" while it investigates the outbreak.

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The 28 ill people have been reported in the following states: Arizona, four; California, one; Minnesota, four; Missouri, five; New Mexico, five; North Carolina, one; Texas, four; Utah, one; Washington, one; and Wisconsin, two.

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Five people have died and 21 more hospitalized after they were infected with listeria linked to prepackaged caramel apples, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

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These things are usually in stores in the US from a few weeks before Halloween to a few weeks after Thanksgiving. So from about 10 Oct to now.



I could swear I just saw some on a shelf today in a Wal Mart. I suppose the only reason they have not yet been pulled is because they have not nailed down the exact source:

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No brands or manufacturers of the caramel apple products have been identified

(anecdote) I had one this year and the apple was absolutely disgusting looking. It was very tiny and very pinkish. Absolutely nothing like the last time I had one decades ago...

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