Is it just plain human reaction to panic that one recall prompts another or is the recall of foods from eggs, to deli meat and now fruit bars a sign of how dirty our environment is?

Fruiti Pops, Inc. of Sante Fe Springs has recalled its mamey frozen fruit bars because of a possible link to typhoid fever.

The fruit bars were distributed in Califronia, Arizona and Texas since May 2009.  Retail stores, ice cream trucks and vending machines which have the UPC number 763734000097 sold the frozen fruit bars.

These frozen fruit bars were made from contaminated mamey pulp that Goya Foods, Inc. voluntarily recalled on Aug. 12, after it was linked to a typhoid fever outbreak in California and Nevada.

Typhoid fever is transmitted by ingestion of food or water contaminated with the feces of an infected person.  A person may become an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid fever, suffering no symptoms, but can infect others.  Five percent of people who contact typhoid continue to carry the disease after they recover.

Typhoid fever is characterized by a slowly progressive fever as high as 40 °C (104 °F), sweating, gastroenteritis, and nonbloody diarrhea.  Rash may also appear.

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