Power Law for Estimating Underdetection of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks, United States

Power Law for Estimating Underdetection of Foodborne Disease Outbreaks, United States

We fit a power law distribution to US foodborne disease outbreaks to assess underdetection and underreporting. We predicted that 788 fewer than expected small outbreaks were identified annually during 1998–2017 and 365 fewer during 2018–2019, after whole-genome sequencing was implemented. Power law...

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Main Authors: Laura Ford, Julie L. Self, Karen K. Wong, Robert M. Hoekstra, Robert V. Tauxe, Erica Billig Rose, Beau B. Bruce
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2024-02-01
Series:Emerging Infectious Diseases
Subjects:
foodborne outbreaks
disease outbreaks
foodborne diseases
food safety
statistical distributions
public health surveillance
Online Access:https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30/2/23-0342_article

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