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CDC estimates of foodborne illness in the United States [PDF]
CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) gets sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. The 2011 estimates provide the most accurate picture yet of which foodborne bacteria, viruses, microbes
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BMC Public Health, 2018 Background Shigella causes approximately 500,000 illnesses, 6000 hospitalizations, and 40 deaths in the United States annually, but incidence and populations at risk for severe shigellosis among adults are unclear. This study describes severe shigellosis
Lindsey S. McCrickard +3 more
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Perspectives in Foodborne Illness
Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, 2013 This article provides a historical framework on food safety for more contemporary details to rest on, focusing primarily on the past 100 years or so (with a touch of ancient history) as particular issues that affect how the safety of the food we eat have been appreciated, have evolved or at times have been successfully dealt with, or have newly emerged
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SETTING PRIORITIES IN FOODBORNE PATHOGEN DATA: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESPONSE [PDF]
Foodborne pathogens, foodborne illness, cost of illness, databases, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety,
Hamm, Shannon +3 more
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BMJ, 1999 Media attention on outbreaks of infection caused by salmonella species and Escherichia coli 0157 and more recently on new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease have highlighted the importance of foodborne transmission of infectious agents, but what of the role of viruses?
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Division of Foodborne Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases : accomplishments, 2010 [PDF]
We protect public health nationally and internationally through the prevention and control of disease, disability, and death caused by foodborne, waterborne, and environmentally transmitted infectionsResponding to foodborne and diarrheal disease ...
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Appetite for a Foodborne Infection
PLOS Pathogens, 2015 Most people who ask about our research are somewhat aghast to hear that their neurons might be dens for a brain parasite obtained from cats or from eating contaminated meat. Although Toxoplasma gondii, or “Toxo” for short, can be an aggressive cause of birth defects, eye disease, or fatal neural syndrome in people with weak immunity, many of the 2 ...
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A DISTRIBUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE COSTS OF FOODBORNE ILLNESS: WHO ULTIMATELY PAYS? [PDF]
This paper traces the economic impact of the costs of foodborne illness on the U.S. economy using a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) framework. Previous estimates of the costs of seven foodborne pathogens are disaggregated by type, and distributed across ...
Golan, Elise H. +2 more
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, 2016 Viral transmission through contaminated food and water claims hundreds of thousands of lives every year, particularly affecting children in developing nations.
Netzler, NE, Hansman, GS, White, PA
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Arctic ScienceToxoplasma gondii is a very common zoonotic parasite in humans and animals worldwide. Human seroprevalence is particularly high in some regions of Canada’s North and is thought to be associated with the consumption of traditionally prepared country foods.
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