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Better biosurveillance could halt disease spread

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Joined-up approach would have helped in German E. coli outbreak.

Germany is still recovering from one of the world's worst outbreaks of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli, which as of 18 June had sickened more than 3,200 people and caused 39 deaths1. The unusually deadly bacteria moved undetected through the food supply from livestock to agriculture to the dinner table, and the response to the outbreak was branded slow and inefficient by physicians and scientists (see 'Microbe outbreak panics Europe').

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  1. Frank, C. et al. New Engl. J. Med. advance online publication doi:10.1056/nejmoa1106483 (2011).

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Vaidyanathan, G. Better biosurveillance could halt disease spread. Nature (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2011.392

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