Our mission is to improve public health nationally and internationally through the prevention and control of disease, disability, and death caused by foodborne, waterborne, and environmentally transmitted infections.
U.S.-Based Outbreaks
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In the News
- New interactive map provides state-by-state fact sheets describing CDC’s work to combat antibiotic resistance in multiple areas, including food safety.
- Get CDC information on keeping your family's food safe that you can use year-round.
- Genetic data on antibiotic resistance of Salmonella infections is available for the first time in the NARMS Human Isolates Surveillance Report.
- Global emergence of multidrug-resistant Candida auris
- The mcr-1 gene conferring colistin resistance has been discovered in U.S. E.coli samples.
CDC and Foodborne Outbreaks
- Page last reviewed: May 2, 2016
- Page last updated: January 19, 2017
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