The Indian Health Service has confirmed 14 cases of salmonella on the Navajo Nation , The Gallup Independent reports.
The Navajo area office said the people who became sick bought tomatoes at one of two stores in New Mexico. One is a Wal-Mart in Farmington and the other is a Bashas' in Crownpoint.
The IHS has two epidemiologists working on the outbreak. The first cases showed up in early May.
Since then, people in more than a dozen states have been affected.
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