date:Nov 08, 2012
o public health threat remains? Does it announce a suspected outbreak source in the midst of an investigation even if its not yet certain this is where the outbreak started?
First, lets look at how an investigation unfolds.
There are two ways an outbreak is discovered, says food safety microbiologist Phyllis Entis:
1) Different patients cases are connected using PulseNet, a database where states report what strain of pathogen has sickened someone. In this case, the Centers for Disease Control