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'William Beach loved cantaloupe — so much so that starting in June last year he ate it almost every day. By August, the 87-year-old retired tractor mechanic from Mustang, Oklahoma, was complaining to his family that he was fatigued, with pain everywhere in his body.
A San Juan grape tomato farm in Villa Juarez, Mexico on May 23, 2012, allows workers to use a toilet. Some laborers choose to defecate in the field to get away from the odor of feces and wipe their hand on their pants. Photographer: Caroll Taveras/ Bloomberg Markets via Bloomberg.
On Sept. 1, 2011, Beach got out of bed in the middle of the night, put his clothes on and walked into the living room. His wife, Monette, found him collapsed on the floor in the morning. At the hospital, blood poured from his mouth and nose, splattering sheets, bed rails and physicians.
He died that night, a victim of Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterium that can lead to a blood infection and damage to the brain and spinal cord, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its November issue.'
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