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Public Health Trace has 18,482 recall records and 782 outbreak investigations on file connected to West Virginia, with 24,847 reported illnesses across those outbreak investigations, republished from official FDA, USDA, and CDC sources.
18,482
Recalls distributed here
782
Outbreaks affecting this state
24,847
Reported illnesses
Recalls and outbreaks by year
A bar chart of recall and outbreak counts affecting this state by year, built from the complete yearly totals for this state, not a bounded preview.
Recalls
Outbreaks
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Recalls and outbreaks by year
Year
Recalls
Outbreaks
1972
0
1
1973
0
0
1974
0
0
1975
0
0
1976
0
0
1977
0
0
1978
0
0
1979
0
0
1980
0
0
1981
0
0
1982
0
1
1983
0
2
1984
0
0
1985
0
0
1986
0
0
1987
0
0
1988
0
0
1989
0
0
1990
0
0
1991
0
0
1992
0
0
1993
0
0
1994
0
0
1995
0
0
1996
0
0
1997
0
0
1998
0
3
1999
0
3
2000
0
4
2001
0
5
2002
0
2
2003
0
1
2004
0
0
2005
0
1
2006
0
3
2007
0
5
2008
0
5
2009
0
24
2010
0
33
2011
0
52
2012
396
68
2013
1,147
47
2014
695
70
2015
1,707
66
2016
1,469
55
2017
1,871
46
2018
1,365
66
2019
2,030
55
2020
1,108
36
2021
993
35
2022
1,642
43
2023
1,330
50
2024
956
0
2025
889
0
2026
884
0
CDC NORS is a historical archive currently available through 2023; later zeros do not mean no outbreaks occurred.
Recall records distributed in West Virginia
Newest reported records first. Each record's own status (active, terminated, or not reported) is shown on its card.
No disease surveillance trend data has been published for this state.
Data availability
Disease surveillance trends are only shown where CDC's reporting areas have been matched to this state.
A state showing no surveillance data here may still have real recalls and outbreaks above - the gap is
in state-level linkage for weekly case reports specifically, not an indication that nothing was reported.
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This page combines recall records from the FDA and USDA with outbreak investigations and disease surveillance
data from the CDC. It is not a safety ranking or comparison between states -- a higher count here can reflect
more thorough reporting as much as more actual events, and is not a statement that West Virginia is more or
less safe than any other state.
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