Cucumbers have been all the rage lately thanks to TikTok's viral cucumber salad and the meteoric social media rise of the platform's Logan "Cucumber Boy" Moffitt — and thankfully, it appears home cooks are safe to indulge in the trend, too, as a "multi-state outbreak" of salmonella tied to contaminated cucumbers is finally waining.
As the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) wrote in a report released and updated last week, by July 2, a total of "449 people infected with one of the outbreak strains of Salmonella Africana and Salmonella Braenderup have been reported from 31 states and the District of Columbia." One hundred and twenty-five of those infected were also hospitalized, though none died as a result of the infection, according to the report.
