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The CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) publishes reported "notifiable" diseases every week. Below is information published in this week's MMWR on illnesses that are often foodborne that were reported during the week ending August 20, 2011:

Hemolytic uremic syndrome, postdiarrheal
6 reported cases in the United States: Missouri (1), North Carolina (1), Tennessee (2), Arkansas (1), Oregon (1).

Listeriosis
14 reported cases in the United States: New York (1), Pennsylvania (1), Ohio (2), Florida (1), Texas (1), Colorado (2), Washington (1), California (5).

Hepatitis A
13 reported cases in the United States: Pennsylvania (1),  Ohio (1), Florida (1), Maryland (3), North Carolina (1), South Carolina (2), Arizona (1), Idaho (1), Colorado (1), California (1).

Salmonellosis
773 reported cases in the United States:  Maine (2), Vermont (1), New York (66), Pennsylvania (27), Michigan (3), Ohio (31), Iowa (4), Kansas (8), Missouri (20), Nebraska (13), Deleware (3), District of Columbia (1), Florida (148), Georgia (42), Maryland (32), North Carolina (42), South Carolina (37), Virginia (27), Kentucky (2), Mississippi (9), Tennessee (32), Arkansas (25), Louisiana (2), Oklahoma (32), Texas (81), Arizona (1), Colorado (23), Idaho (1), Montana (3), New Mexico (1), California (44), Washington (9).

Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (usually E. coli O157)
74 reported cases in the United States: Maine (1), New York (12), Pennsylvania (3), Michigan (3), Ohio (10), Missouri (6), Nebraska (1), Delaware (1), Florida (9), Maryland (1), North Carolina (3), South Carolina (1), Virginia (3), Mississippi (1), Tennessee (5), Arkansas (2), Oklahoma (2), Texas (2), Colorado (4), California (1), Washington (3).

Shigellosis
148 reported cases in the United States: New York (9), Ohio (7), Kansas (1), Missouri (3), Florida (48), Georgia (2), Maryland (4), North Carolina (1), Virginia (2), Mississippi (2), Tennessee (3), Arkansas (2), Oklahoma (2), Texas (48), Arizona (1), Colorado (1), Montana (1), California (10), Oregon (1).