Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Autoethnographies on the Environment and Human Health pp 127–140Cite as

Palgrave Macmillan

Foodborne Diseases

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 222 Accesses

Abstract

Foodborne diseases affect individuals everywhere in the world. The chapter discusses where foodborne illness occurs, who is affected, and how to avoid these diseases. The story takes place in Mexico and discusses how, why, and what happens once infected with a foodborne disease.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   49.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   64.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

  1. World Health Organization. Food safety. 2015. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs399/en/

  2. World Health Organization. WHO estimates the global burden of foodborne disease: foodborne disease burden epidemiology reference group 2007–2015. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/199350/1/9789241565165_eng.pdf?ua=1

  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Foodborne germs and illnesses. 2016. https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html

  4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Outbreak updates for international cruise ships. 2017. https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/vsp/surv/gilist.htm

  5. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Parasites–Giardia. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/parasites/giardia/illness.html

  6. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Diarrhea: common illness, global killer. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html

  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Norovirus—the stomach bug. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/norovirus/downloads/keyfacts.pdf

  8. CIA. The World Fact Book. Mexico; 2017. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/mx.html

  9. Bryan FL. Factors that contribute to outbreaks of foodborne disease. J Food Prot. 1978;41(10):816–27.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Chapter 4 Select destinations: the Americas and the Caribbean. 2017. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/yellowbook/2016/select-destinations/mexico

  11. Food Poison Journal. Human feces tainted cilantro from Mexico sickens hundreds in US. 2015. http://www.foodpoisonjournal.com/foodborne-illness-outbreaks/cilantro-from-mexico-sickens-hundreds-in-us-with-cyclospora/#.WRyE7fnyupo

  12. Rojas-Molina N, Pedraza-Sanchez S, Torres-Bibiano B, Meza-Martinez H, Escobar-Gutierrez A. Gnathostomosis, an emerging foodborne zoonotic disease in Acapulco, Mexico. Emerg Infect Dis. 1999;5(2):264.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Liu L, Johnson HL, Cousens S, Perin J, Scott S, Lawn JE, Rudan I, Campbell H, Cibulskis R, Li M, Mathers C, Black RE, Child Health Epidemiology Reference Group of WHO and UNICEF. Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. Lancet. 2012;379(9832):2151–61.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  14. CDC. Global diarrhea burden. 2015. https://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/global/diarrhea-burden.html

  15. Unicef. Diarrhoea remains a leading killer of young children, despite the available of a simple treatment solution. 2017. https://data.unicef.org/topic/child-health/diarrhoeal-disease/

  16. UN. Goal 6: ensure access to water and sanitation for all. 2017. http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/water-and-sanitation/

  17. UN. Sustainable Development Goal 3: ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. 2017. https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg3

  18. Keusch GT, Fontaine O, Bhargava A, et al. Diarrheal diseases. In: Jamison DT, Breman JG, Measham AR, et al., editors. Disease control priorities in developing countries. Chapter 19. 2nd ed. Washington, DC: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank; 2006. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11764/ (Co-published by Oxford University Press, New York.)

    Google Scholar 

  19. Unicef. One is too many. 2016. https://data.unicef.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/UNICEF-Pneumonia-Diarrhoea-report2016-web-version_final.pdf

  20. Food Safety News. Bugs through the ages: the foodborne illness fight. 2011. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2011/01/fbi-through-the-ages/#.WSB_BPnyupp

  21. Oldach DW, Richard RE, Borza EN, Benitez RM. A mysterious death. N Engl J Med. 1998;338(24):1764–9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Frumkin H. Environmental health: from global to local: John Wiley & Sons; 2016. p. 518–25.

    Google Scholar 

  23. Graham JP, Nachman KE. Managing waste from confined animal feeding operations in the United States: the need for sanitary reform. J Water Health. 2010;8(4):646–70.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Hites RA. Dioxins: an overview and history. Environ Sci Technol. 2010;45(1):16–20.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Ivers LC, Ryan ET. Infectious diseases of severe weather-related and flood-related natural disasters. Curr Opin Infect Dis. 2006;19(5):408–14.

    Google Scholar 

  26. Connolly MA, Gayer M, Ryan MJ, et al. Communicable diseases in complex emergencies: impact and challenges. Lancet. 2004;364:1974–83.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  27. World Health Organization. Diarrheal diseases (2009): WHO Fact-sheet No. 330. 2009. www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/ fs330/en/index.html

  28. Qadri F, Khan AI, Furuque ASG, et al. Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Vibrio cholerae diarrhea, Bangladesh. Emerg Infect Dis. 2005;11:1104–7.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  29. World Health Organization. Health action in crises. Haiti: response to the cholera outbreak. www.who.int/hac/crises/hti/highlights/ october2010/en/index.html

  30. Lewis L, Onsongo M, Njapau H, Schurz-Rogers H, Luber G, Kieszak S, Nyamongo J, Backer L, Dahiye AM, Misore A, DeCock K. Aflatoxin contamination of commercial maize products during an outbreak of acute aflatoxicosis in eastern and central Kenya. Environ Health Perspect. 2005;113(12):1763–7.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  31. CDC. Information for the public. 2016. https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/groups/consumers.html

  32. World Health Organization. Five Keys to growing safer fruits and vegetables: promoting health by decreasing microbial contamination. 2012. http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/75196/1/9789241504003_eng.pdf

  33. WHO Collaborative Study Team. Effect of breastfeeding on infant and child mortality due to infectious diseases in less developed countries: a pooled analysis. Lancet. 2000;355:1104.

    Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. National University, San Diego, CA, USA

    Tara Rava Zolnikov

Authors
  1. Tara Rava Zolnikov
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 The Author(s)

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Zolnikov, T.R. (2018). Foodborne Diseases. In: Autoethnographies on the Environment and Human Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69026-1_10

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69026-1_10

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-319-69025-4

  • Online ISBN: 978-3-319-69026-1

  • eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation