Foodborne, Vectorborne, and Zoonotic Disease Unit
This unit trackscases of foodborne diseases, individual foodborne illness complaints, and outbreaks of foodborne illness; cases of arboviral encephalitis, tickborne diseases, rabies and other zoonotic diseases.
- Foodborne Illness
- Mosquito-Transmitted Diseases
- Tick-Transmitted Diseases
- Intestinal Illness Acquired From Animals
- Amebiasis
- Anaplasmosis
- Anthrax (Bacillus anthracis)
- Avian H5N1 Influenza
- Babesiosis
- Bed Bugs
- Bird Mites
- Black Flies
- Blastomycosis
- Botulism (Clostridium botulinum toxin)
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)
- Brucellosis (Brucella species)
- Campylobacteriosis (Campylobacter)
- Cat scratch disease
- Cholera (Vibrio cholerae)
- Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD)
- Cryptosporidiosis (Cryptosporidium parvum)
- Dengue virus infection
- Diphyllobothrium latum infection
- E. coli O157:H7 Infection (Escherichia coli)
- Ehrlichiosis
- Encephalitis - arboviral
- Giardiasis (Giardia)
- Glanders
- Hantavirus infection
- Head Lice
- Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS)
- Histoplasmosis
- Leptospirosis
- Listeriosis (Listeria)
- Lyme disease
- Malaria
- Monkeypox
- Norovirus Infection (aka Norwalk virus, calicivirus, viral gastroenteritis)
- Plague (Yersinia pestis)
- Psittacosis
- Q fever
- Rabies
- Ricin
- Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever
- Salmonellosis (Salmonella)
- Scabies
- Shigellosis (Shigella)
- Toxoplasmosis (Toxoplasma gondii)
- Trichinosis
- Tularemia (Francisella tularensis)
- Typhus
- Vibrio
- Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers
(VHFs)
(filoviruses [e.g., Ebola, Marburg] and arenaviruses [e.g., Lassa, Machupo]) - West Nile Virus
- Yersiniosis (Yersinia enterocolitica)

