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The outbreak database was created to compliment a website put out by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. Here is our Foodborne Illness Outbreak Database.
All of these fields that you see, keywords, organism, month, year, vehicle, state, country,
you can search on any of these fields that you see.
The organisms come as a drop-down list. So you would just select an organism that you
are interested in, say, for example, Salmonella. And if you, for instance, wanted to see salmonella
outbreaks linked to eggs, you could type in here as a keyword "egg," scroll down 'till
you come to the search button, hit search, and you will see a listing of egg Salmonella
outbreaks. You see the year of the outbreak, and some
more information. Now, if you want to find out more about a
specific outbreak, you simply click on the title, and you'll come up with a description
of the outbreak. You can see when the outbreak began, the states
that are affected in this particular outbreak. So, let's say we wanted to see about E. coli
O167:H7 outbreaks that have occurred, say for example, in 2010.
You come to the organism list, check E. coli, come down here to the year, enter in the year
of interest, in our case, 2010, scroll down to the search button, enter search.
And you'll see a list of E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks that have occurred since January 1st.
Select the title and you get a detailed description of the outbreak.
See when it began. In this case, February 2010. The state: it occurred in Washington
State. The vehicle or food item is unpasteurized milk; molecular results are unknown at this
time. It was sold in retail stores, and the brand name was "Jackie's Jersey."
What we do is we provide links to recalls; provide references which is another unique
feature of our database. And, also, I do believe that we, at Marler Clark, I believe that we
provide a service. I like to think we are continuation of public health.