Federal Public Health Programs and Employees are Essential Despite Label
By Scott J. Becker, executive director, APHL It is day two of the federal government shutdown. Every day, before I leave for work, I walk…
Food Safety
What We’re Reading – Cyclospora Edition
By Jessica Monmaney, Associate Specialist, Food Safety and Infectious Diseases, APHL Cyclosporiasis, the infection of Cyclospora, is rare in the U.S., so when the Iowa Department…
FoodCORE Centers: Current Efficiency Practices and Initiatives
By Jessica Monmaney, Associate Specialist, Infectious Disease and Food Safety, APHL Since its inception in 2009, FoodCORE has allowed participating laboratories to increase outbreak response times…
Nanotechnology and Public Health: Part 2/2
By: Michael Heintz, Senior Specialist, Environmental Laboratories, APHL This is the second in a two-part series on the implications of nanotechnologies on public health. See…
Beware of the Nose Pickers
By Kara MacKeil, BA, Senior Technician, Public Health Preparedness and Response, APHL Let’s all stop and think for a moment about why you, personally, should…
Improving Outbreak Response with FoodCORE: an Introduction to Food Safety Success Stories
By Jessica A. Monmaney, Senior Technician, Food Safety and Infectious Diseases, APHL A few months ago, you may have heard about an ongoing and growing Salmonella outbreak.…
One World. One Health… and the Vector at Our Back Door
You don’t have to explain to public health laboratorians that the health of humans, animals and the environment are inextricably linked. HIV/AIDS, SARS, 2009 H1N1,…
What We’re Reading: Norovirus Edition
'Tis the season! Did you know that norovirus is more common in the winter months? If you have been reading the news and following your…
What is norovirus?
By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHL I can’t help but notice an overwhelming trend in my Facebook newsfeed these days: people all over the…
The Diseases of The Oregon Trail
By Michelle Forman, Senior Media Specialist, APHL Anyone who was in grade-school in the mid-1980s and 1990s likely remembers The Oregon Trail, a computer game…