JUST-IN-TIME OUTBREAK RESOURCES

Cyclospora Edition

Cyclospora and the headline "explosive diarrhea" have grabbed the nation's attention.

We know many of you are hard at work investigating clusters and outbreak in your jurisdictions and we wanted to provide a couple of resources you might find helpful.

Ingredient Analysis Toolkit

This toolkit provides resources for investigating establishment subclusters in multi-state foodborne outbreaks and conducting ingredient specific analyses.

The tool you need when trying to determine which fresh produce topping or meal is the smoking gun.

Access the toolkit here

Data Collection Tools and More!

Cyclospora National Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire in REDCap and EpiTrax

REDCap data dictionary please email

Siobhan Dodds TN Food Safety CoE

EpiTrax data dictionary please email

Ingrid Hewitson CO Food Safety CoE

Media Talking Points for the Field

Please email Katie Garman TN Food Safety CoE

Sample Submission Process Guide

Please email Ingrid Hewitson CO Food Safety CoE

Interview Just-in-Time Training

You might be scaling up and recruiting additional interviewers to assist with this outbreak. The Food Safety CoE's offer a number of just-in-time interview training videos.

10 Cardinal Rules of Interviewing

Three Phases of Effective Interviews

Challenging Interview Scenarios - Interviewee Cannot Remember Exposures

Webpages to Bookmark

CDC Cyclospora Health Advisory

CDC Cyclosporiasis Outbreak with Unknown Source

Environmental Health Focused Resources

AFDO Webinar - The webinar will provide an overview of Cyclospora outbreaks, common foods implicated in the outbreaks, food vehicle sources, and information public health officials have learned from investigating past outbreaks.

Part 1 - cover current research, FDA sampling assignments, laboratory methodologies, and genotyping.

Part 2 - focuses on FDA response to positive cyclospora findings

AFDO Investigating Fresh Produce Cyclospora Outbreaks

The internet is a wash with Cyclospora content at the moment and some might characterize the quality of the information being shared "explosive diarrhea".

However, we have come across a couple of really well done public health communications and wanted to share those outlets with you.

Your Local Epidemiologist @your_local_epidemiologist

Unbiased Science Pod @unbiasedscipod

Both can be found on various platforms.