Over the past year, you may have noticed that antimicrobial resistance information has been incorporated in the outbreak reports put out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The agency recently introduced the
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FoodNet Report: Pathogen Infection Rates Still ‘Well Above’ Government Targets
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released its latest report card on the trends in foodborne illnesses on Thursday, and, in general, not much has changed from previous years. According to the Foodborne
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Outbreak Case Counts: Why Official Numbers Fall Far Below Estimates
When news broke this past fall of two separate Salmonella outbreaks tied to Foster Farms chicken, one of the most noteworthy aspects of each outbreak was the number of patients sickened. To date, the outbreaks
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Children More Likely To Be Sickened by Foodborne Illness
Foodborne bacteria cause more illnesses among children than adults, according to new estimates. A study published this week in The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal finds that children less than five years old fall ill from
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FoodNet Shares Lessons From More Than a Decade of Data
Numbers are usually called trends after a year. After more than a decade, numbers can point up real problems or they just become more interesting.
That may be why FoodNet, the collaborative 10-state surveillance
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Salmonella, Listeria Top List of Foodborne Killers
Salmonella and Listeria continue to be the leading cause of death from foodborne illness in the United States, according to a study published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.
The statistics come from an
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E. coli O157 Recedes, Salmonella on Rise in U.S.
While the United States has made progress in keeping E. coli O157:H7 at bay in the food supply, it hasn’t made much headway in combating Salmonella, health officials said Tuesday.
And another front has opened
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