In 1854, as a cholera epidemic killed hundreds in London, an English physician named John Snow was determined to find out how the disease was transmitted.
Snow doubted the prevailing
From the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Food Safety Epidemiology Capacity in State Health Departments — United States, 2010
December 23, 2011 / 60(50);1701-1704:
…In 2010, a
Many a drive-by shooting is successful without anyone getting hit, so Del Monte Fresh Produce got to do a victory dance last week after FDA re-opened the U.S. border
A complaint lodged by Del Monte Fresh Produce against an Oregon Public Health epidemiologist has been dismissed by the state’s Government Ethics Commission.
The Oregonian’s Lynne Terry reported
Attorneys and judges who make our criminal system work have been talking for some time about “CSI Syndrome.”
That is the level of expectation for evidence that has developed in
The chances of detecting and stopping major outbreak of foodborne illness in middle America declined Friday due to Minnesota’s political shutdown of most state services — including Team Diarrhea and
The state of Minnesota remains in a contentious budget standoff that could have serious implications for the nation’s food safety system. Minnesota’s Republican-controlled Legislature and Gov. Mark Dayton,
The German E. coli outbreak is demonstrating the difficulty of identifying a “smoking gun” in outbreaks of foodborne illness.
Some are asking, “Where is the evidence?” By “evidence,” I believe
An Oregon hazelnut packer recently refused to reveal his list of nut suppliers because, he said, health officials had not proved that hazelnuts were responsible for an outbreak of toxic
Seven sick people, most of them middle-aged men, scattered across three states. As epidemiology goes, that’s not much to go on.
To track outbreaks of foodborne illness, the “epi”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported yesterday that the number of state-level epidemiologists–who often serve as the frontline in detecting and tracking foodborne illness outbreaks–has