In 2004, OzFoodNet sites recorded 24,313 notifications of eight potentially foodborne diseases, along with 118 outbreaks of foodborne disease. Overall, reports of both notifications and outbreaks were higher than previous years. The most common sporadic diseases were campylobacteriosis (15,640 cases) and salmonellosis (7842 cases). Reports of sporadic cases of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia ...

CDC collects data on foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks reported by all U.S. states and territories through the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System (FDOSS) (http://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/fdoss/surveillance/index.html) and the Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System (WBDOSS) http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/surveillance), respectively. These two systems are the prim...

background several hundred thousand people are infected with vibrio cholera every year worldwide, with a case fatality rate over 2%. periodic cholera outbreaks are of important health issues in iran, especially in sistan and baluchistan province. objectives in this study, we evaluated cholera out breaks and related factors, during 2010-2013, to improve controlling the disease in this province. ...

Recreational water-associated disease outbreaks result from exposure to infectious pathogens or chemical agents in treated recreational water venues (e.g., pools and hot tubs or spas) or untreated recreational water venues (e.g., lakes and oceans). For 2009-2010, the most recent years for which finalized data are available, public health officials from 28 states and Puerto Rico electronically r...

Enteric infections Outbreaks of suspected foodborne disease Ten outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease, thought to be due to the consumption of microbiologically contaminated food and which affected a total of 103 people, were reported in March and April 2012. This is higher than the number of outbreaks reported for the same period last year. These outbreaks were linked to restaurants (n1⁄4 6), ...

Recent outbreaks of infectious diseases in athletes in competitive sports have stimulated considerable interest. The environments in which these athletes compete, practice, receive therapy for injuries, and travel, both domestically and internationally, provide varied opportunities for the transmission of infectious organisms. The purpose of this medical literature review is to identify the age...

This paper examines the U.S. meat demand impacts of the announced outbreaks of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) and avian influenza (AI). Findings indicate that beef and chicken demand was negatively affected by BSE and AI disease outbreaks. Specifically, in the short run, U.S. consumers shift demand due to both outbreaks but more so due to domestic disease outbreaks than for outbreaks oc...

Listeria monocytogenes, a bacterial foodborne pathogen, can cause meningitis, bacteremia, and complications during pregnancy. This report summarizes listeriosis outbreaks reported to the Foodborne Disease Outbreak Surveillance System of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during 1998-2008. The study period includes the advent of PulseNet (a national molecular subtyping network for ou...

To understand circumstances of tuberculosis transmission that strain public health resources, we systematically reviewed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff reports of US outbreaks in which CDC participated during 2002-2008 that involved ≥3 culture-confirmed tuberculosis cases linked by genotype and epidemiology. Twenty-seven outbreaks, representing 398 patients, were reviewe...