Food- And Water-Borne Agents

Abstract

Technology has provided us with both a safer, more nutritious food supply and purified water sources. Tampering or malfunction of these processes may alter their quality with the potential for widespread outbreak of food-borne or waterborne disease. Care of these patients should focus on hydration and antibiotic therapy in certain instances. Trichothecene mycotoxicoses may be of natural or artificial origin with a clinical presentation consistent with vesicant or radiation exposure. Treatment for these cases is supportive. Decontamination of equipment status post any food or waterborne outbreak requires special attention.