Nearly half of states need to improve outbreak reporting, says CSPI
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 - 05:28
in Health & Medicine
WASHINGTON -- The national cost of foodborne illness has been estimated at the astronomical sum of $152 billion annually, but the information on who is getting sick and what is causing those illnesses is part of a state-by-state surveillance system that shows mixed results around the country, raising important new questions about how to improve state outbreak reporting. In 2006, more than