CDC estimates of foodborne illness in the United States

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases.
• Description:
  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 (“pathogens”) are causing the most illnesses in the United States, as well as estimating the number of foodborne illnesses without a known cause. The estimates show that there is still much work to be done—specifically in focusing efforts on the top known pathogens and identifying the causes of foodborne illness and death without a known cause.
• Subjects:
  Foodborne Diseases/Epidemiology/United States Foodborne Diseases/Trends/United States FoodNet
• Document Type:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:d1fc6f5129e380582894543f8235b6647c51011abf23207eff13ab8f4757fd65
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/23296/cdc_23296_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 141.13 KB ]