The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a report on a four state outbreak that sickened 20 people. The implicated Salmonellas were linked to the same brand of cashew brie.
In keeping with its standard procedure, the CDC did not name the brand or manufacturer of the brie
Continue Reading CDC confirms that cashew brie caused multistate Salmonella outbreak
When Saul Sanchez, a 78-year old “green hat” supervisor at the JBS beef plant in Greeley, CO, died from COVID-19 this past April 7, nobody was thinking he might be the first of nearly 100 others in the industry to succumb to the virus. Sanchez worked at the Greeley
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Infections and deaths from COVID-19 in meat, poultry industries
“The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.” –TR
The voice of the CDC is The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which is published by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, located in Atlanta.
This week, MMWP has found the CDC’s
Continue Reading Letter From The Editor: CDC answers its many critics
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with new data on outbreaks of foodborne illness, reporting statistics from 2009-2015 when outbreaks sickened more than 100,000 people.
Out of the 100,939 people who were confirmed with food poisoning from various pathogens during that time, 5,699 had to be
Continue Reading CDC posts numbers on US outbreaks; chicken sickens the most
A report on an outbreak of foodborne parasite infections in California in early 2017, published by the CDC, describes how raw, wild boar meat resulted in life-threatening illnesses for several people.
A traditional dish in Laotian and other Asian cuisines is laub, which, as shown here,
Continue Reading Disease detectives blame raw, wild boar meat for outbreak
For the first time since CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report last year documented two siblings with cryptosporidiosis associated with raw milk consumption, a state is blaming an invasion of the microscopic parasites on raw milk. 
New Mexico officials want people to dump raw milk, warning the Cryptosporidium parasite causes
Continue Reading New Mexico parasite infection outbreak linked to raw milk
