MMWR Articles
Public Health Dispatch: Outbreak of Listeriosis
--- Northeastern United States, 2002
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5142a3.htm
Outbreak of Listeriosis Associated With Homemade
Mexican-Style Cheese --- North Carolina, October 2000--January
2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5026a3.htm
Preliminary FoodNet Data on the Incidence of Foodborne
Illnesses --- Selected Sites, United States, 2001
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5115a3.htm
Links
Press Release: Multistate listeriosis outbreak,
2002
http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r021121.htm
USDA Directive to Reduce Listeria monocytogenes
in Ready-to-Eat Meat and Poultry Products:
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FSISDirectives/10240.3.pdf
(directive)
http://www.usda.gov/news/releases/2002/11/0478.htm
(news release)
HHS
and USDA Release Listera Risk Assessment and Listeria Action Plan
Reducing
the Risk of Listeria monocytogenes - Joint Response to the President
Draft
Assessment of the Relative Risk to Public Health from Foodborne
Listeria monocytogenes Among Selected Categories of Ready-to-Eat
Foods
Listeriosis and Pregnancy: What is your risk?
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/lm_tearsheet.pdf
(pdf)
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/pubs/lm_tearsheet.htm
(html)
What You Can Do To Keep Germs From Harming You
and Your Baby
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/gbs/pregnancyinfections.pdf
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