date:Nov 08, 2012
and Prevention, which operates PulseNet, looks for patterns and clusters in the data to determine if there is an outbreak.
2) A microbe is recovered from food after testing, but before distribution, prompting CDC to utilize PulseNet to see if any illnesses are linked to that strain.
This is not necessarily a quick process. Depending on which strain (there are thousands of strains of Salmonella, for instance) causes the outbreak, the discovery and analysis period could take weeks or even mont