Health Statistics: Foodborne Illness

Collects national data on outbreaks of human enteric illness linked to contact with animals or their environments.

Managed by the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, NORS is a web-based platform that U.S. health departments use to report outbreak information to CDC. Through NORS, CDC collects reports of enteric disease outbreaks caused by bacterial, viral, parasitic, chemical, toxin, and unknown germs. NORS also collects reports of foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks that are not enteric.

molecular tracking system that collects information on cryptosporidiosis (Crypto), the diarrheal disease caused by the parasite Cryptosporidium.

CDC reporting system that informs work to prevent people and animals from becoming sick from harmful algal blooms.

Collects data on waterborne disease and outbreaks associated with recreational water, drinking water, environmental, and undetermined water exposures.

Conducts surveillance in ten U.S. sites for infections caused by eight pathogens transmitted commonly through food.

Collects and reports national data on foodborne disease outbreaks, defined as the occurrence of two or more cases of a similar illness resulting from consuming a common food.

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Interagency public health surveillance system that tracks antimicrobial resistance in foodborne and other enteric (intestinal) bacteria from humans (CDC), retail meats (FDA), and food animals (USDA) in the United States.

National laboratory network focused on norovirus, the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States.

CDC collects data on nationally notifiable enteric bacterial infections. These infections include botulism (caused by toxin-producing Clostridia bacteria, including Clostridium botulinum), invasive Cronobacter infection among infants, and infections caused by Campylobacter spp., Listeria monocytogenes, Salmonella spp. (including those causing typhoid fever and paratyphoid fever), Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), Shigella spp., and Vibrio spp. (including those causing cholera).

Surveillance system run by CDC’s National Center for Environmental Health that captures data to help identify the underlying environmental causes of foodborne illness outbreaks.

National laboratory network that connects foodborne illness cases to detect outbreaks. PulseNet uses DNA fingerprinting of bacteria making people sick to detect thousands of local and multistate outbreaks.

Secure, web-based platform that combines epidemiologic, laboratory, and traceback data in real time, to collaborate when investigating multistate outbreaks.

Public health tool to understand COVID-19 spread in communities using wastewater data.