article thumbnail

Preventing Foodborne Illness

Gideon

2. Development of Public Health Surveillance Systems A competent public health surveillance system should be implemented by the governmental and related organizations to identify impending outbreaks in order to facilitate effective policies and goals (6, 7). Foodborne viral outbreaks associated with frozen produce.

article thumbnail

Misdiagnosing Legionellosis and Legionnaires Disease Can Be Fatal. But Why Is It Still Common?

Gideon

So much so that even the World Health Organization or WHO states, “Since many countries lack appropriate methods of diagnosing the infection or sufficient surveillance systems, the rate of occurrence is unknown. References [1] WHO, World Health Organization, “ Fact Sheet: Legionellosis ,” WHO, February 16th, 2018.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Chagas Disease

Gideon

Recently, a new surveillance system has been implemented in some countries where malaria is also endemic; microscopy technicians have been trained to identify T. References (1) D. In China , blood donors are not currently screened for Chagas disease. cruzi in malaria films (18).

article thumbnail

Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

At the same time, we can also see positive examples of this: Angela Glover Blackwell refers to the “curb cut effect,” which highlights how investing in one group (in this scenario, those in wheelchairs) affects the broader well-being of a community (making sidewalks more accessible for those pushing strollers, for example).