date:May 16, 2012
e logged. Most are single-state outbreaks.
The Listeria Initiative involved a 16-page questionnaire that CDC encourages state and local health departments to use to interview those infected by Listeria. The goal is to get the interview completed as quickly and thoroughly as possible.
Since it began in 2002, the number of states involved in the Listeria Initiative has grown to 42, up from 19.
Alicia Cronquist from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said the Listeria in