Imported Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever: One That Got Away
Posted January 30, 2009 by Ali S. Khan | 
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CDC’s Special Pathogens Branch recently diagnosed a case of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in a U.S. traveler who returned from Uganda back in January 2008. This person had visited the famous “python cave” in Maramagambo Forest, Queen Elizabeth Park, western Uganda...
Ingredient Driven Outbreaks: The Inside is Bigger than the Outside
Posted January 27, 2009 by Ali S. Khan | 0 Comments
The broad distribution of peanut butter and peanut paste shipped to food manufacturing companies from this single plant throughout the country has triggered the recall of nearly two hundred food products and exposed a critical factor supporting the continued emergency of food-borne outbreaks...
Salmonella Typhimurium Outbreak Investigation: Do Not Try This at Home
Posted January 14, 2009 by Ali S. Khan | 2 Comments
There are numerous interesting features of this outbreak that highlight the complex issues I discussed recently for foodborne outbreaks. There was an unrelated overlapping outbreak, several PulseNet patterns involved, a State Health Department being the first to pull the trigger for a product advisory, and a contaminated ingredient that is in many foods...
A New Twist for Ebola: Reston-Infected Pigs in the Philippines
Posted January 5, 2009 by Ali S. Khan | 0 Comments
Ebola-Reston virus is a mystery. Although quite deadly in monkeys, this Ebola cousin doesn’t appear to cause human illness. And who knows how it got to or independently evolved in the Philippines – a good 7,000 miles and really big ocean away from its Zaire, Sudan, Cote D’Ivoire, and Bundibugyo brethren in Africa...
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