Salmonella scare reaches NY
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- June
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  New York can now claim two of the hundreds of tomato-related Salmonella Saintpaul infections in the country. There are two lab-confirmed cases, the state Health Department reported this evening, but they have not resulted in any hospitalizations or deaths. One case was a New York City resident on vacation in Pennsylvania., and the other was an Orange County resident.
  There have been 229 cases associated with the outbreak nationwide, including one death and 25 hospitalizations.
  For more information, visit the Web sites of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/hottopics/tomatoes.html, the state Health Department at www.nyhealth.gov, or the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at www.cdc.gov.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
