Fact Sheets

Food Safety

What CDC is Doing

• CDC and Food Safety [PDF – 2 pages]
• Listeria and Whole Genome Sequencing [PDF – 2 pages]

Consumer Education

• Food Poisoning: Protect Yourself and Your Family [PDF – 1 page]
• Infographics on FoodSafety

Special Population

• Food Safety for Pregnant Women [PDF – 24 pages]
• Food Safety for Older Adults [PDF – 20 pages]
• Food Safety for People with Cancer [PDF – 20 pages]
• Food Safety for People with Diabetes [PDF – 20 pages]
• Food Safety for People with HIV/AIDS [PDF – 20 pages]
• Food Safety for Transplant Recipients [PDF – 20 pages]
• Toxoplasmosis: An Important Message for Cat Owners [PDF – 2 pages]

Estimates of Foodborne Illness

• CDC Estimates of Foodborne Illness in the United States: Findings [PDF – 140 KB]
• Table 2. Estimated annual number of episodes of illnesses caused by 31 pathogens, United States [PDF – 1 page]
• Table 3. Estimated annual number of hospitalizations and deaths caused by 31 pathogens, United States [PDF – 1 page]

PulseNet

• PulseNet: 20 Years of Making Food Safer to Eat[PDF – 4 pages]
• PulseNet Saves Lives and Money[PDF – 2 pages]

Vital Signs

• Vital Signs 2015: Safer Food Saves Lives
• Vital Signs 2014: Preventing Norovirus Outbreaks
• Vital Signs 2013: Recipe for Food Safety
• Vital Signs 2011: Making Food Safer to Eat

Response

• Toolkit: Guidelines for Foodborne Disease Outbreak Response

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Fungal Diseases

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Healthy Water

Hygiene and Handwashing

• Health Promotion Materials
• Handwashing: A Family Activity [PDF – 1 page]
• Handwashing: A Corporate Activity [PDF – 1 page]
• Handwashing and Hand Sanitizer Use [PDF – 2 pages]
• Stop Germs! Stay Healthy! Wash your Hands English [PDF – 1 page] Español [PDF – 1 page]

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Global Health

Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH)

• Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program Overview [PDF – 241 KB]
• Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Program Impact [PDF – 173 KB]
• Global Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Health Burden [PDF – 1.15 MB]
• Diarrhea: Common Illness, Global Killer [PDF – 4 pages]
• Improving Child Development: A New CDC Handwashing Study Shows Promising Results [PDF – 2 pages]

Household Water Treatment – The Safe Water System

• Technical Bulletins
• Project Fact Sheets
• Program Manuals

Fungal Diseases

• CDC and fungal diseases [PDF – 2 pages]
• Valley Fever and the Expanding Geographic Range of Coccidioides [PDF – 2 pages]
• Facts about Valley Fever [PDF – 2 pages]
• Fighting a deadly fungus: Cryptococcus [PDF – 2 pages]
• Cryptococcal meningitis among people living with HIV/AIDS

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