The Essential Elements of Local Public Health provides updates and information from NACCHO’s Environmental Health and Infectious Disease portfolios.
Federal and state tests have found dangerous toxins, common in outbreaks of blue-green algae, in hundreds of lakes, rivers and other...
Aug 08, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying...
Aug 01, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
This new report is part of the Federal Research Action Plan (FRAP) on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds, a...
Jul 30, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Retail Food Team has released new posters that focus on proper holding practices for...
Jul 24, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The May session of the CDC Grand Rounds, “Turning the Tide: The Role of Water Management to Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease,” was viewed...
Jun 04, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Some people use frozen berries without first cooking them, increasing their risk of exposure to harmful viruses. The U.S. Food and...
May 31, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers, tattoo artists, and retailers of the potential for serious injury...
May 23, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four...
May 20, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
By Anna Perea, Policy and Communications Lead, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for...
May 15, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Federal and state tests have found dangerous toxins, common in outbreaks of blue-green algae, in hundreds of lakes, rivers and other bodies of water nationwide – yet authorities are doing little to notify and protect Americans, according to a new analysis and map from the Environmental Working Group. Algae blooms often are triggered by agricultural chemicals […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its public health partners in all 50 states are tracking and classifying foodborne illness in a new way, using advanced technology called whole genome sequencing (WGS) to detect and stop outbreaks and combat drug-resistant bacteria. PulseNet, the national network of laboratories that detects outbreaks of foodborne […]
This new report is part of the Federal Research Action Plan (FRAP) on Recycled Tire Crumb Used on Playing Fields and Playgrounds, a multi-agency research effort by EPA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR), and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to characterize the chemicals associated with […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s National Retail Food Team has released new posters that focus on proper holding practices for cold prepared food and adequate cooking temperatures for turkey and ground beef. These posters were created as part of the FDA’s efforts to enhance food safety training at the retail level by helping employees […]
The May session of the CDC Grand Rounds, “Turning the Tide: The Role of Water Management to Prevent Legionnaires’ Disease,” was viewed in 7 foreign countries, 48 states, and the District of Columbia. Reports of Legionnaires’ disease (LD) cases and outbreaks are increasing in the United States. LD is a serious lung infection caused by breathing […]
Some people use frozen berries without first cooking them, increasing their risk of exposure to harmful viruses. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reported three hepatitis A virus outbreaks and one norovirus outbreak linked to frozen berries in the United States from 1997 to 2016. The FDA began sampling frozen berries for each hazard as […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting consumers, tattoo artists, and retailers of the potential for serious injury from use of tattoo inks that are contaminated with bacteria. Tattoo inks contaminated with microorganisms can cause infections and lead to serious health injuries when injected into the skin during a tattooing procedure, since there […]
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health has announced awards to establish four Cooperative Research Centers (CRCs) focused on developing vaccines to prevent sexually transmitted infections. The grants, totaling $41.6 million over five years, will support collaborative, multidisciplinary research on the bacteria that cause syphilis, gonorrhea...
By Anna Perea, Policy and Communications Lead, Bacterial Diseases Branch, Division of Vector-Borne Diseases, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention The distribution of ticks and the pathogens they can transmit change over time. As a result, the likelihood of people coming in contact with ticks also changes over space […]
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