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Produce Strikes Back: Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak
McDonald’s stopped serving sliced tomatoes on their burgers. Other businesses in the food industry have also recently joined this precautionary movement — actions that follow a trail of health reports...
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Salmonella Saintpaul Outbreak: Epilogue
I’ve spent many years roaming this planet and, without doubt, we have amongst the safest food in the world. However, the largest foodborne outbreak in the last 10 years with an estimated 15, 000 cases...
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CSI Atlanta: Foodborne Outbreak
During the recent investigation of the outbreak of Salmonella Saintpaul, CDC often mentioned that the overall “outbreak investigation is complex and difficult.” This complexity and difficulty extends...
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Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Investigation: Do Not Try This at Home
The Enteric Diseases programs at CDC have been collaborating with state public health officials, the USDA-Food Safety and Inspection Service, and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to...
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Ingredient Driven Outbreaks: The Inside is Bigger than the Outside
The current Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak associated with a peanut processing plant in Blakely, Georgia, appears to have begun in September 2008, and was first detected in mid-November 2008 by DNA...
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Food-borne Outbreaks Caused By Ingredients: Would You Like Some Pepper With...
I often discuss the globalization and complexity of our food supply to highlight both the wonderful diversity of our yummy foodstuffs but also the challenges from contamination. Recently,...
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Cheesy Chicken & Rice Recall: A Successful Outbreak Investigation
I know it is summer when a quick review of our foodborne outbreak watch board shows four multistate outbreak investigations: Salmonella Chester, Salmonella Baildon, Salmonella Hartford, and E. coli...
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Thinking About Keeping Live Poultry?
An increasing number of people around the country are choosing to keep live poultry, such as chickens or ducks. Along with the benefits of backyard chickens and other poultry, it is important to...
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Public Health: Are We Too Slow?
One of the many roles of public health is to protect consumers from threats like foodborne outbreaks. Much of this hinges on quickly getting out clear messages to the public that provide simple steps...
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Tiny Turtle–Serious Health Threat
By Abigail Ferrell, JD, MPA As children, my brother and I talked our very patient mother into letting us have a wide variety of creatures as domestic pets. Nothing too exotic—mostly cats, dogs, and...
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How We Decide What to Say in Emergencies
An outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium struck 46 states from 2008-2009. Communicators had to work quickly to get the right messages out. Christine Prue, MSPH, Ph.D., Associate Director for Behavioral...
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Responding to Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Disease Threats in 2017
Rima F. Khabbaz, MD, Director, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases The fungal superbug Candida auris causes serious and often fatal infections. It can strike people in the...
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After the Storm: 3 Types of Post-Disaster Poisonings to Know, Prepare For
National Poison Prevention Week (March 17-23) was started in 1962 to encourage Americans to “learn of the dangers of accidental poisoning and to take such preventive measures as are warranted by the...
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Even More Practical Skills for the Holiday Host(ess) with the Mostest
This is an updated version of a post first published on December 17, 2018. Around this time last year, we published a post titled 5 Practical Skills for the Holiday ‘Host(ess) with the Mostest.’ And...
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NCEZID Labs, Programs Mark 2019 Milestones
The National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) faced challenges in 2019, but the year also marked a number of milestones for the center. NCEZID’s annual Accomplishments...
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