Holly, Colorado (ap)-Eric Jensen investigating his dust float in the sky of hami melon field, seems to be in his crops suffered the same fate of shock and doubt: rotten on the vine after rows.
Jason is a national health officials say, the farm in Colorado have in common bacteria, the origin of the outbreak-he already sick from Wyoming to Maryland dozens of people, and caused the death of 16 people food panic. The epicenter of the field withered
Jason don't know is how to be his hami melon infection, also do not have a food and drug administration in the town of 800 people near the border of Kansas has intermittent since the outbreak began earlier this month investigators.
No matter how it happened, the situation has left the city and reeling and fear. Farm Jensen had quit hami melon planting and shipping after the outbreak has been found-a hami melon is a proud tradition of the area where a SAP.
Until the bacteria infection begin to show out Franz liszt, Holly on site working staff will bring into the city share to melons, as they age. And it is not rare Holly residents stop Jason farm buy freshly picked hami melon. Now, not even local grocery store have any fruit.
Have been Holly, no one was ill, but people are afraid of contracting liszt prospects. The bacteria can have a month or longer incubation period, it mainly affect the old man and the immune system damaged.
"I eat, I give it cantaloupe some I 97-year-old mother", "Watson said, wanda, jointly owned delicious coffee shop floor." I see her real close to its terrible, because it can be for two months before, you ill. "
Shirley McGarry, a of the FDA's office, a senior adviser to food and the agency is looking for in the water and the possibility of farm animals walk to Johnson of the farm field, among other things, tries to find out the how hami melon, become pollution. Liszt in wet muddy bacterial growth, under the condition of the animals, usually is.
Holly area of the water from Wells and farm irrigation canals, mining nearby the Arkansas river. Near the town of reasons for the potential shortage of thinking is there.
"Well, I doubt. Ditch water? Well, there is always a chance, but it low," said Jim, klein, a retired construction workers. "Animal invasion? Well, OK, what kind of animal? A deer? Coons surface? Hyenas? Into the melon field want what kind of animal?"
Jason farm workers, stop picking hami melon, to recall its products because. Is there need to irrigate crops, melons dry hard field. As Eric Jensen lost crops, investigating his workers tore down the plastic, laid the line help hami melon growth.
He can't discuss the outbreak of the pending litigation, reason is may raft.
"There are many things that I now want to say a lot, but it's not time yet," Jensen said.
It's Holly, a town, the difficult time have seen the latest blow.
In the end of 2006, Holly blizzard cut off from the outside world so bad, the helicopter drop cattle feed stranded in the town of a heavy blow. Just when people dig blizzard, a tornado, howling, killing three people by Holly, destroying dozens of homes and destruction.
On September 10, the recall of hami melon to Jason farm severe drought, Colorado, Kansas, southeast Texas and Oklahoma federal disaster areas, has been one of the difficulties of the end of the harvest season.
People talk about some of the YuMiGan so dry conditions, corn have no ears. In the output of wheat-usually in 40 to 50 bushel each acres-down to about 20.
"We are only here, no any luck," Watson said.
Holly from rocky ford, Colorado reverence hami melon the planting area about 90 minutes drive from the town. From the Arkansas river basin cantaloupe precious is the sweetness of what big deal, like Jensen farm-70 miles away-" rocky ford hami melon "brand name
Liszt scare some residents want to know about the rock for their future-for ford hami melon brand in the matter of Colorado agriculture and hami melon. They hope the outbreak will finally faded from the memory of the public, such as involved in other escherichia coli or salmonella contamination spinach or ground meat.
"You think beef recall, you think in California spinach, said:" Michael Daskam, who in the local water and soil conservation office work. "But in the mind is very uncomfortable, I am to eat spinach and beef right."
The same is true for local production hami melon.
"I'm not afraid to eat hami melon, now I eat a, horry mayor viola Welcher said." "We all had, no one in our area has already become ill."




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