Currently, the methods used to assess an infection by America's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention lag an outbreak by a week or two.
Prevention of a disease outbreak is the most important means of control and requires a proactive approach.
On Monday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a response plan for any potential outbreak.
The new cases expanded the outbreak to six states, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
"We hope to establish a continental plan for prevention, and if necessary a mechanism to fight this outbreak that has not yet affected Africa, " the AU's Peace and Security Commissioner Jean Ping said in Addis Ababa.
On September 14th the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta issued the first of several daily alerts concerning an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7, a potentially lethal pathogen typically associated with adulterated beef.
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Tennessee has been the hardest-hit state in the meningitis outbreak, with 70 cases as of Tuesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Whether it's a deliberate attack, as with anthrax, or the outbreak of a slow and silent killer such as HIV, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is in the forefront of America's defense.
Atlanta (CNN) -- Federal and state health officials are investigating a salmonella outbreak in 19 states and the District of Columbia, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The number of lives claimed in the United States by cantaloupes contaminated with a dangerous bacteria climbed to 29 this week, making the 28-state wide outbreak outbreak of listeriosis the deadliest in the United States since 1985, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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