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Walmart, Aldi Recall Salad Mixes Due to Cyclospora

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Burgeoning Outbreak in Beijing Shuts Down Neighborhoods, Businesses

The Dragon Boat Festival, one of the most celebrated Chinese traditions, usually brings throngs of people together at this time of year as they engage in boat races and enjoy bamboo wrapped sticky rice dumplings as a family. But Beijingers are in no mood for festivities this year. The city is now back to being in semi-lockdown as authorities ramp up virus tests after the virus made a resurgence in the city two weeks ago. Around 2.3 million citizens in Beijing have undergone testing, while businesses across the city have reported clustered infections. “No one wants to gamble with their lives,” a worker at a local courier service SF Express in Beijing’s Fengtai district—home to the suburban Xinfadi food market that authorities claim is the source of the city’s initial cluster…

Walmart, Aldi Recall Salad Mixes Due to Cyclospora

The food and drug administration says it has linked more items to a multi-state outbreak of Cyclospora infections.

Walmart marketside classic iceberg salad bags are now part of the recall.

Walmart, Aldi Recall Salad Mixes Due to Cyclospora A Walmart store is seen in Miami, Fla., on Feb. 18, 2020. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The recall applies to 12—and 24—ounce bags sold in Iowa, Minnesota, Michigan, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin.

The products contain iceberg lettuce, carrots, and red cabbage.

Officials say the Illinois company fresh express produced the salads.

Earlier this month it recalled similar items sold at midwestern Aldi and Jewel-Osco stores.

The CDC says laboratory tests confirm Cyclospora infections in 206 people.

No one has died, but 23 patients have been hospitalized.

The CNN Wire contributed to this report.

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