Federal health officials are urging people in six states in the Northeast not to eat fresh papaya from Mexico amid a salmonella outbreak that has sickened at least 62 people, sending more than a third of them to hospitals.

The states affected are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island. People in Florida and Texas also fell ill after consuming papaya purchased in one of the six states, the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.

Preliminary analysis of product import records indicates that the whole, fresh papayas that made people sick in this outbreak were from Mexico, the FDA said.