The government’s count of people made ill by salmonella-tainted tomatoes has jumped to 383, 106 more than were known earlier this week.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that most of those people got sick weeks ago but just hadn’t been counted yet. Part of the surge is better testing by states, and part is an end to a backlog of test results in laboratories.
Still, the latest known infected person fell ill on June 5. The CDC’s food safety expert, Dr. Robert Tauxe, said, “We do not think the outbreak is over.”
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