Subject: Features from this Week: Holiday Turkey, Ending TB, Antibiotics, Norovirus and more.
From: "Centers for Disease Control and Prevention" <no-reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2019 11:03:06 -0800
Features from this Week: Holiday Turkey, Ending TB, Antibiotics, Norovirus and more.
Week in Review
Holiday Turkey
Handling poultry (chickens and turkey) incorrectly and undercooking it are the most common problems that lead to foodborne disease outbreaks linked to poultry.1 Follow these four tips to help you safely prepare your next holiday turkey meal.
Too many people in the United States still suffer from TB disease. New 2018 TB surveillance data can help track progress toward elimination, and inform TB prevention and control activities.
Be Antibiotics Aware is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) national educational effort to help improve antibiotic prescribing and use and combat antibiotic resistance.
You can help protect yourself and others from norovirus by washing your hands thoroughly with soap and water and following other simple prevention tips.
Congo-born CDC Photographer Rooting for Ebola Responders
When President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) came to CDC headquarters in late September, Jim Gathany was on the scene in his usual role—“a fly on the wall with a camera.”