A lawsuit filed on behalf of a Hobbs woman who died in September after eating contaminated fruit says food safety auditors gave a Colorado cantaloupe farm a

Five more deaths are blamed on the listeria outbreak involving tainted cantaloupe.

Pools of water on the floor and old, hard-to-clean equipment at a Colorado farm's cantaloupe packing facility were probably to blame for the deadliest outbreak

An outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is now linked to 23 deaths in the U.S., making it the deadliest known outbreak of food-borne illness in more than 25

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a third Colorado death linked to listeria in cantaloupes, bringing the nationwide death toll in the

The New Mexico Department of Health Thursday confirmed a fifth death from the multi-state Listeriosis outbreak linked to Jensen Farms' Rocky Ford cantaloupes.

Federal health officials said Wednesday more illnesses and possibly more deaths may be linked to an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe in coming weeks.

As many as 14 people have died from possible listeria illnesses traced to Colorado cantaloupes, health officials say — a death toll that would make the food

The listeria outbreak has claimed the life of another New Mexican. The state health department says a 96 year-old Lea County woman died from eating

A multistate Listeria outbreak linked to a Colorado farm has the state's melon farmers worried that their prime selling season has been ruined.

Another New Mexican is reported to have contracted listeria after eating cantaloupe.

A melon farm in Colorado has issued a recall of cantaloupe following a deadly Listeria outbreak that has spread to several states.

The source of a deadly listeria outbreak is likely the Rocky Ford area of southeastern Colorado, according to federal health officials.

Ongoing collaborative investigations by local, state, and federal public health and regulatory agencies indicate the likely source of the outbreak is a type of