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20 years of PulseNet: Preventing thousands of illnesses and saving millions of dollars

Posted on March 15, 2016

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Happy anniversary, PulseNet! For 20 years, this revolutionary national laboratory network has triggered outbreak investigations far more quickly than before its inception. As we celebrate this landmark, we are looking back at PulseNet’s impact on foodborne outbreak detection. “PulseNet was transformational in the US for both food safety and for the nation’s public health labs,”…

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