Medscape Commentaries

Food Safety
Find out simple and quick ways to reach your patients about foodborne illness, outbreaks, and foods to avoid or handle correctly. Topics include:

• What Foods Are Making People Sick? Recent Major Outbreaks
• An Alarming Trend: Multistate Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
• Food Outbreaks: The Most Wanted List
• 5 Cases of Food Poisoning: Can You Identify the Pathogen?
• Clinical Impact of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella
• Foodborne and Enteric Infections in Children
• Botulism: Countering Common Clinical Misperceptions
• Suspecting Foodborne Illnesses in Special Populations:
  Quick Facts for Providers
• Listeria: Food Poisoning’s Rare but Deadly Germ
• Hold the Raw Sprouts, Please
• Savvy about Salmonella?
• Got Milk? Don’t Get Raw Milk! A Cautionary Tale.
• Foodborne Illness: A Handy Overview

Healthy Water
Talk to your patients about the importance of clean water.
Topics include:

• Keratitis and Contact Lens Use
• Brain-Eating Ameba: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis
• Clean Drinking Water and How to Get It: Advising Patients
• Is Waterborne Disease Still an Issue in the United States?
• Shedding New Light on a Potentially Blinding Eye Infection
• When to Consider Cholera
• Talk to Patients About Recreational Water Health Risks

Fungus
Learn about fungal infections that may appear in your patients and when to suspect them.
Topics include:

• Fungal Disease: A Growing Nemesis
• Valley Fever: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Fungal Endophthalmitis: Diagnosis and Treatment
• Fungal Infection Outbreak: What Should Physicians Be Doing?
• Mucormycosis: When to Think Fungal Infection

Healthy Pets, Healthy People
Help your patients make sure their pets aren’t making them sick. Topics include:

• Major Outbreaks of Enteric Zoonoses in 2012
• Pet Turtles Can Make People Sick: Guidance for Clinicians
• Pets Can Make People Sick