jueves, 27 de marzo de 2014

CDC Press Release: Salmonella data now at your fingertips

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sent this bulletin at 03/26/2014 01:44 PM EDT

Press Release

For Immediate Release: Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Contact: CDC Media Relations
(404) 639-3286

Salmonella data now at your fingertips

This illustration depicts a three-dimensional (3D) computer-generated image of Salmonella serotype Typhi bacteria.

Forty years of data on a major cause of food poisoning now is available to the public, the food industry, and researchers in a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data, collected by state and federal health officials, provides a wealth of information on Salmonella, the top foodborne cause of hospitalizations and deaths in the United States.

Available for hands-on web access for the first time, the Atlas of Salmonella in the United States, 1968-2011 summarizes surveillance data on 32 types of Salmonellaisolates from people, animals, and other sources. The information is organized by demographic, geographic and other categories.

“Salmonella causes a huge amount of illness and suffering each year in the United States. We hope these data allow researchers and others to assess what has happened and think more about how we can reduce Salmonella infections in the future,” said Robert Tauxe, M.D., deputy director of CDC’s Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases. “The more we understand Salmonella, the more we can make progress in fighting this threat all along the farm to table chain.”