Volume 20, Number 9—September 2014
Dispatch
Factors Contributing to Decline in Foodborne Disease Outbreak Reports, United States
Maho Imanishi, Karunya Manikonda
, Bhavini P. Murthy, and L. Hannah Gould
, Bhavini P. Murthy, and L. Hannah Gould
Table
Number of survey respondents reporting difficulty in distinguishing between foodborne disease outbreaks and outbreaks caused by other modes of transmission in the National Outbreak Reporting System, United States, 2013
| Mode of transmission | No. (%) respondents |
|
|---|---|---|
| Experienced difficulty in distinguishing outbreak type | If experienced difficulty, likely reported as foodborne to previous system | |
| Foodborne vs. person-to-person, n = 25 | 20 (80) | 15 (75) |
| Foodborne vs. indeterminate/other/unknown, n = 25 | 19 (76) | 13 (68) |
| Foodborne vs. environmental contamination, n = 22 | 11 (50) | 8 (73) |
| Foodborne vs. water, n = 23 | 8 (35) | 2 (25) |
| Foodborne vs. animal contact, n = 21 | 6 (29) | 1 (17) |
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