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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection...
Aug 02, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) has developed videos to aid in diagnosing measles. These...
Jul 31, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
CDC’s MMWR and Medscape are proud to introduce a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity. The goal of this activity is to describe...
Jun 18, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
On April 29, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an MMWR article about the increase in measles cases...
Apr 30, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16...
Mar 28, 2019 | Michelle Shapiro
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and...
Feb 14, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an MMWR on early-season influenza activity in the United States from...
Dec 14, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released an MMWR featuring a report on PrEP use by race and ethnicity....
Nov 07, 2018 | Kim Rodgers
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming...
Aug 27, 2018 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) titled Injection Practices and Sexual Behaviors Among Persons with Diagnosed HIV Infection Who Inject Drugs in the United States, 2015–2017. Approximately 10% of HIV-positive people who inject drugs (PWID) engaged in distributive injection equipment sharing; nonsterile syringe...
CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD) has developed videos to aid in diagnosing measles. These videos describe clinical features of measles, how to diagnose it in a patient, and what to do if a provider suspects they have a case. CDC’s vaccination recommendations and guidance have not changed. Providers should continue to […]
CDC’s MMWR and Medscape are proud to introduce a new FREE continuing education (CE) activity. The goal of this activity is to describe a wound botulism outbreak in California during 2017–2018 among persons who use black tar heroin. A CDC analysis of 2017–2018 data reported in MMWR is the basis of the activity. This CE […]
On April 29, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released an MMWR article about the increase in measles cases in the U.S. Additionally, CDC hosted a telebriefing about the topic; visit this website to find the audio recording and transcript. Measles was eliminated in the United States in 2000, but during January 1–April […]
Most reported foodborne outbreaks occur in retail food establishments like restaurants. A recent MMWR said that from 2014 to 2016, 16 state and local public health departments reported 404 of these kinds of outbreaks to CDC’s National Environmental Assessment Reporting System (NEARS). Most of the outbreaks were of viral illnesses, such as norovirus. This is […]
Today, February 14, 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new national analysis in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) finding that drug use more than doubled among heterosexuals with syphilis from 2013-2017. Additionally, there is a supplement to the STD surveillance report addressing this data. The MMWR article analyzed self-reported […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published an MMWR on early-season influenza activity in the United States from September 30- December 1, 2018. Influenza activity in the United States was low during October 2018, and, although it increased slowly during November, activity remained low across most of the country. The timing of influenza […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released an MMWR featuring a report on PrEP use by race and ethnicity. The report shows race and gender disparities between people with PrEP indications and those prescribed PrEP. Below is the CDC’s summary and a link to the full report. What is already known about this […]
On Thursday August 23rd, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released updated recommendations for the coming 2018-2019 influenza season. These recommendations were featured in a Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), “Prevention and Control of Seasonal Influenza with Vaccines: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.” Updated information for the...
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