{"id":2210,"date":"2018-08-21T09:44:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:37:39","slug":"preventing-foodborne-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/preventing-foodborne-illness.php","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Foodborne Illness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48 million Americans are affected by a foodborne disease each year. That\u2019s one in every six Americans. More than 100,000 will have to visit the hospital each year and 3,000 Americans lose their lives due to foodborne diseases.<\/p>\n<p>Hoosiers are no strangers to\u00a0outbreaks of foodborne illness.\u00a0But scientists including some\u00a0right here in Indiana\u00a0are working on new resources for consumers to protect themselves and their families.<\/p>\n<p>This week on Noon Edition we\u2019ll talk about the prevention of foodborne illnesses and what you can do to protect yourself.<\/p>\n<h3>Guests:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Patricia Wakenell<\/strong>, Professor of Avian Diagnostics at Purdue University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tracy Hawkins,<\/strong>\u00a0Rapid Response Team Epidemiologist for the Indiana State Department of Health<\/p>\n<p><strong>George Hegeman<\/strong>, Professor Emeritus of Biology at Indiana University<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: <a href=\"https:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/noonedition\/preventing-foodborne-illness\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Preventing Foodborne Illness on Indiana Public Media<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48 million Americans are affected by a foodborne disease each year. That\u2019s one in every six Americans. More than 100,000 will have to visit the hospital each year and 3,000 Americans lose their lives due to foodborne diseases. Hoosiers are no strangers to\u00a0outbreaks of foodborne illness.\u00a0But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33853,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/33853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}