Food & Waterborne Infectious Disease Threats Symposium

This multimedia presentation has been designed to educate medical and public health professionals about food and waterborne infectious disease threats. The learner will learn about immediate threats to our nation’s food and water supply and measures that are taken to reduce these threats. Speakers are scientists and practitioners and the specific lectures include: Food and Waterborne Infectious Disease Threats: An Overview; Changing Epidemiologic Trends and the Public Health Picture; Microbiological Foodborne Threats; Emerging Issues in Water and Health; Surveillance Issues; What Makes Agroterrorism Dangerous?; and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy and Other Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. The CD-ROM proceedings were developed in collaboration with the Southeastern Center for Emerging Biologic Threats (SECEBT). (Symposium given on November 16, 2004)