Caramel Apples Kill Five People, Hospitalize 26 Across Ten States
In DepthTurns out the fact that they’re disgusting isn’t the only reason to worry about caramel apples: contaminated versions of the nominal dessert “treat” killed five people and caused 23 more to get sick in ten states over the past two months.
The initial deaths/hospitalizations (of the 28 total cases, 26 resulted in hospitalization) occurred in Minnesota, but the Centers for Disease Control has now linked a rash of other listeria deaths and illnesses in Arizona, California, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin to the same source. These weren’t homemade caramel apples, either, but prepackaged ones which were apparently infected with the deadly bacterium listeria.*