Estimates of the economic costs associated with foodborne disease are important to inform public health decision-making. In 2008, 57 cases of listeriosis and 24 deaths in Canada were linked to contaminated delicatessen meat from one meat processing plant. Costs associated with the cases (including medical costs, nonmedical costs, and productivity losses) and those incurred by the implicated pla...

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 ...

BACKGROUND Underreporting of foodborne illness makes foodborne disease burden estimation, timely outbreak detection, and evaluation of policies toward improving food safety challenging. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to present and evaluate Iwaspoisoned.com, an openly accessible Internet-based crowdsourcing platform that was launched in 2009 for the surveillance of foodborne illnes...

BACKGROUND On 4th February 2015, a group of Senior High School students from Fanteakwa district presented to the emergency unit of the district hospital with complaints of abdominal pain, vomiting and diarrhoea. All the students had eaten from a specific food vendor and had neither eaten any other common meal that day nor the previous day. A foodborne disease outbreak was suspected. We investig...

A safe and secure food supply is critical to our national security. The recent string of food recalls and foodborne illnesses has created a sense of urgency in addressing gaps in the food safety system, and made safe food a high priority for the nation. Early detection and rapid response are challenges that must be met to minimize the impact of a contamination event— whether unintentional or th...

conclusions none of the foodstuffs distributed among the pilgrims were the reason for this disease, and studying outbreaks in caravans with higher sample sizes is suggested. results only canned rice and fish had a relative risk higher than one, although both were not statistically significant. therefore, it could be stated that the consumed foodstuffs have not caused this outbreak. materials an...

Cliver, D. O. 1988. Virus transmission via foods. Food Technol. 42:241-248. Viruses have “emerged” as causes of foodborne disease, according to data compiled by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. During 1983–87 in the United States, Norwalk virus was the fifth leading cause of foodborne disease among outbreak-associated illnesses; hepatitis A virus was the sixth; and other viruses ...

A severe foodborne disease outbreak late in 1950 in Osaka, Japan, led to 20 fatalities among 272 patients, who suffered from acute gastroenteritis, with symptoms that included severe abdominal pain, described by many as a “burning sensation in the stomach,” vomiting, and severe diarrhea. The onset of symptoms was very rapid, within 2 to 6 h in most cases, and autopsies revealed extensive damage...

INTRODUCTION In December 2001, an outbreak of foodborne gastroenteritis infected 114 of 161 people who ate at a restaurant in Aracaju, State of Sergipe, Brazil. METHODS The epidemiological and microbiological aspects of the outbreak were characterized. RESULTS Potato salad made with homemade mayonnaise and stored at unsuitable temperatures was associated with increased risk of foodborne inf...

Listeriosis is characterized by bacteremia or meningitis. We searched for listeriosis case series and outbreak investigations published in English by 2013, and assessed the strength of evidence for foodborne acquisition among patients who ate hospital food. We identified 30 reports from 13 countries. Among the case series, the median proportion of cases considered to be hospital-acquired was 25...