Volume 5, Number 5—October 1999
Synopsis
Food-Related Illness and Death in the United States
Table 2
Reported and estimateda illnesses, frequency of foodborne transmission, and hospitalization and case-fatality rates for known foodborne pathogens, United States
Disease or Agent | Estimated total cases | Reported Cases by Surveillance Type |
% Foodborne transmission | Hospital- ization rate | Case-fatality rate | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Active | Passive | Outbreak | ||||||
Bacterial | ||||||||
Bacillus cereus | 27,360 | 720 | 72 | 100 | 0.006 | 0.0000 | ||
Botulism, foodborne | 58 | 29 | 100 | 0.800 | 0.0769 | |||
Brucella spp. | 1,554 | 111 | 50 | 0.550 | 0.0500 | |||
Campylobacter spp | 2,453,926 | 64,577 | 37,496 | 146 | 80 | 0.102 | 0.0010 | |
Clostridium perfringens | 248,520 | 6,540 | 654 | 100 | 0.003 | 0.0005 | ||
Escherichia coli O157:H7 | 73,480 | 3,674 | 2,725 | 500 | 85 | 0.295 | 0.0083 | |
E. coli, non-O157 STEC | 36,740 | 1,837 | 85 | 0.295 | 0.0083 | |||
E. coli, enterotoxigenic | 79,420 | 2,090 | 209 | 70 | 0.005 | 0.0001 | ||
E. coli, other diarrheogenic | 79,420 | 2,090 | 30 | 0.005 | 0.0001 | |||
Listeria monocytogenes | 2,518 | 1,259 | 373 | 99 | 0.922 | 0.2000 | ||
Salmonella Typhib | 824 | 412 | 80 | 0.750 | 0.0040 | |||
Salmonella, nontyphoidal | 1,412,498 | 37,171 | 37,842 | 3,640 | 95 | 0.221 | 0.0078 | |
Shigella spp. | 448,240 | 22,412 | 17,324 | 1,476 | 20 | 0.139 | 0.0016 | |
Staphylococcus food | 185,060 | 4,870 | 487 | 100 | 0.180 | 0.0002 | ||
poisoning | ||||||||
Streptococcus, foodborne | 50,920 | 1,340 | 134 | 100 | 0.133 | 0.0000 | ||
Vibrio cholerae, toxigenic | 54 | 27 | 90 | 0.340 | 0.0060 | |||
V. vulnificus | 94 | 47 | 50 | 0.910 | 0.3900 | |||
Vibrio, other | 7,880 | 393 | 112 | 65 | 0.126 | 0.0250 | ||
Yersinia enterocolitica | 96,368 | 2,536 | 90 | 0.242 | 0.0005 | |||
Subtotal | 5,204,934 | |||||||
Parasitic | ||||||||
Cryptosporidium parvum | 300,000 | 6,630 | 2,788 | 10 | 0.150 | 0.005 | ||
Cyclospora cayetanensis | 16,264 | 428 | 98 | 90 | 0.020 | 0.0005 | ||
Giardia lamblia | 2,000,000 | 107,000 | 22,907 | 10 | n/a | n/a | ||
Toxoplasma gondii | 225,000 | 15,000 | 50 | n/a | n/a | |||
Trichinella spiralis | 52 | 26 | 100 | 0.081 | 0.003 | |||
Subtotal | 2,541,316 | |||||||
Viral | ||||||||
Norwalk-like viruses | 23,000,000 | 40 | n/a | n/a | ||||
Rotavirus | 3,900,000 | 1 | n/a | n/a | ||||
Astrovirus | 3,900,000 | 1 | n/a | n/a | ||||
Hepatitis A | 83,391 | 27,797 | 5 | 0.130 | 0.0030 | |||
Subtotal | 30,883,391 | |||||||
Grand Total | 38,629,641 |
aNumbers in italics are estimates; others are measured.
b>70% of cases acquired abroad.