During a multistate foodborne disease outbreak, CDC serves as lead coordinator between public health partners to detect the outbreak, define its size and extent, and to identify the source.
Public health officials investigate outbreaks to control them, so more people do not get sick in the outbreak, and to learn how to prevent similar outbreaks from happening in the future.
List of Selected Multistate Foodborne Outbreak Investigations
Recent Outbreak Investigations
Report a Foodborne Illness
Steps to Investigate Outbreaks
InFORM Conference
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November 6-9, 2017
Garden Grove, CA
Brings together laboratorians, epidemiologists, and environmental health specialists with enteric disease outbreak response.
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- Page last updated: September 14, 2017
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