ALD I: Cantaloupe, sliced cantaloupe, and pineapple spears in clamshell packaging with best-by dates between Oct. 27-31 and sold in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, and Wisconsin.

The total deaths linked to a cantaloupe-related salmonella outbreak hit eight. The FDA said three people have died in the U.S., while the Public Health Agency of Canada has counted five.

The outbreak is connected to whole and pre-cut cantaloupes from multiple fruit brands. 230 people in the U.S. have been reported as sick from 38 states and 96 of sick people have been hospitalized.

Hundreds of people in the U.S. and Canada have been sickened and at least 10 people have died in a growing outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to contaminated whole and pre-cut cantaloupe.

The CDC is continuing the sound the alarm about a salmonella outbreak linked to cantaloupes that has sickened hundreds of people and killed four. They are especially concerned because the ...

So far, more than 36,000 boxes or cases of cantaloupe have been recalled. On Dec. 15, Mexican health officials temporarily closed a melon-packing plant implicated in the outbreak.