JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri health officials say the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed two more illnesses in Missouri that are linked to tainted cantaloupe.

The state Department of Health and Senior Services said Thursday that Missouri now has had three cases of listeria that are tied to contaminated fruit grown on a farm in Colorado.

Missouri health officials say all three people had to be hospitalized. The state health agency says a 94-year-old died, but local medical officials determined listeria was not the cause of death.

The Food and Drug Administration says the deadly listeria outbreak will probably get worse over the next month. The FDA says it expects more cases to show up as more people develop symptoms of infection.

The outbreak has already killed at least 13 and as many as 16 people and sickened more than 70 across 18 states since late July.

Experts say those numbers are likely to climb through October because of the long incubation period for the food-borne pathogen.

The whole cantaloupe in question were shipped nationwide between July 29 and Sept. 10, 2011. The whole cantaloupe have a green and white sticker that reads: Product of USA- Frontera Produce-Colorado Fresh-Rocky Ford-Cantaloupe, or a gray, yellow, and green sticker that reads: Jensen Farms-Sweet Rocky Fords. If the whole cantaloupe is unlabeled, please contact your retail store for sourcing information.

Consumers who may have one of these cantaloupe should throw it away.

State and local health officials across Missouri continue to search for additional contaminated cantaloupe still for sale, but at this point have not found any of the contaminated product still on the shelves.

To read the original recall notice, please click here.