Medscape Commentaries
CDC Expert Commentaries on Medscape are part of a collaboration between CDC and Medscape. They are designed to deliver CDC's authoritative guidance directly to Medscape's physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals. The Division contributes regular Medscape commentaries on a variety of topics, including those below.
Food Safety
Find out simple and quick ways to reach your patients about foodborne illness, outbreaks, and foods to avoid or handle correctly. Topics include:
- What Foods Are Making People Sick? Recent Major Outbreaks
- An Alarming Trend: Multistate Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
- Food Outbreaks: The Most Wanted List
- 5 Cases of Food Poisoning: Can You Identify the Pathogen?
- Clinical Impact of Antibiotic-Resistant Salmonella
- Foodborne and Enteric Infections in Children
- Botulism: Countering Common Clinical Misperceptions
- Suspecting Foodborne Illnesses in Special Populations:
Quick Facts for Providers - Listeria: Food Poisoning’s Rare but Deadly Germ
- Hold the Raw Sprouts, Please
- Savvy about Salmonella?
- Got Milk? Don’t Get Raw Milk! A Cautionary Tale.
- Foodborne Illness: A Handy Overview
Healthy Water
Talk to your patients about the importance of clean water.
Topics include:
- Keratitis and Contact Lens Use
- Brain-Eating Ameba: Primary Amebic Meningoencephalitis
- Clean Drinking Water and How to Get It: Advising Patients
- Is Waterborne Disease Still an Issue in the United States?
- Shedding New Light on a Potentially Blinding Eye Infection
- When to Consider Cholera
- Talk to Patients About Recreational Water Health Risks
Fungus
Learn about fungal infections that may appear in your patients and when to suspect them.
Topics include:
- Fungal Disease: A Growing Nemesis
- Valley Fever: Diagnosis and Treatment
- Fungal Endophthalmitis: Diagnosis and Treatment
- Fungal Infection Outbreak: What Should Physicians Be Doing?
- Mucormycosis: When to Think Fungal Infection
Healthy Pets, Healthy People
Help your patients make sure their pets aren’t making them sick. Topics include:
- Major Outbreaks of Enteric Zoonoses in 2012
- Pet Turtles Can Make People Sick: Guidance for Clinicians
- Pets Can Make People Sick
- Page last reviewed: May 14, 2015
- Page last updated: July 6, 2017
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