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UK food poisoning outbreak
UK food poisoning outbreak: a call to invest in public health
BMJ 2024; 386 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.q1516 (Published 15 July 2024) Cite this as: BMJ 2024;386:q1516
- Saarah Khalid, foundation year 2 trainee,
- Stephen Gunther, director of public health,
- Padmanabhan Badrinath, interim consultant in public health medicine
- Directorate of Public Health, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
- padmanabhan.badrinath{at}stoke.gov.uk
The UK’s recent E coli outbreak1 has received extensive media coverage.2 There is also a large ongoing outbreak of Salmonella in the US34 and increasing concerns about the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 outbreak there among cattle, which is spreading to other species.5 The first ever death from H5N2 has just been reported.6 The field of health protection—protecting the population …
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