Moving towards better global foodborne disease surveillance

(European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)) Almost 1 in 10 people worldwide fall ill every year after eating contaminated food which commonly causes bacterial diarrhoea, resulting in 230,000 deaths each year. In an article in Eurosurveillance (to be published 8 June) PulseNet International advocates for public health institutes and laboratories around the world to move together towards the use of whole genome sequencing (WGS) to improve detection of and response to foodborne illnesses and outbreaks.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news