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    Our mission is to improve public health nationally and internationally through the prevention and control of disease, disability, and death caused by foodborne, waterborne, and environmentally transmitted infections.

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    Current Investigations
    • Outbreaks of Salmonella Infections Linked to Backyard Poultry
      Announced June 2022
    • Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Linked to Peanut Butter
      Announced May 2022
    • How Are Foodborne Outbreaks Investigated?
    What's New
    • MMWR: Multistate Outbreak of Listeria Infections Linked to Fresh, Soft Hispanic-Style Cheese
    • MMWR Notes from the Field: Wound Botulism Outbreak Among a Group of Persons Who Inject Drugs
    • NCEZID Accomplishments 2021
    • Wastewater Surveillance Data Added to COVID Data Tracker
    • MMWR Notes from the Field: Early Evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 B.1.1.529 (Omicron) Variant in Community Wastewater
    • MMWR Notes from the Field: COVID-19–Associated Mucormycosis—Arkansas
    Page last reviewed: June 15, 2022
    Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID), Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases (DFWED)
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        • Table 1 version 5. Submission of Enteric Disease-associated Bacterial Isolates and Specimens
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