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To support healthcare providers during the current multi-state measles outbreak, CDC has developed a digital toolkit with products for...
May 06, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Applications are now open for CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). EIS officers are CDC’s disease detectives responsible for...
May 03, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Is it a random uptick in death and disease or is it a trend? This question haunts disease surveillance experts in state and local...
May 02, 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
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the final report for the One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization...
Apr 25, 2019 | Kim Rodgers
Last week, global media company Great Big Story released a four-minute short film, The Disease Detectives Stop Outbreaks at Their...
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the current measles outbreaks around the United...
Apr 25, 2019 | Kimberly Sharpe-Scott
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even...
Apr 23, 2019 | Samantha Ritter
By Lori Tremmel Freeman, NACCHO CEO “Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed there have been 626...
Apr 23, 2019 | NacchoVoice
To support healthcare providers during the current multi-state measles outbreak, CDC has developed a digital toolkit with products for you and your patients about vaccines and measles. These products include accurate, science-based evidence that we hope can help you counter misinformation about measles and MMR vaccine. You are the most trusted source of information when your patients have...
Applications are now open for CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS). EIS officers are CDC’s disease detectives responsible for investigating and responding to outbreaks and other public health emergencies in the U.S. and around the world. Our Disease Detectives receive training and are placed either at CDC headquarters, field stations, or with a state or local […]
Is it a random uptick in death and disease or is it a trend? This question haunts disease surveillance experts in state and local health departments around the world. Death and disease incidence rates rise and fall–they seldom get systematically smaller in every single time period. How to distinguish an epidemic from random fluctuation can […]
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 […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released the final report for the One Health Zoonotic Disease Prioritization Workshop for the United States. Workshop participants from several federal agencies identified and voted on a list of priority zoonotic diseases to be jointly addressed by human, animal, and environmental health sectors in relevant U.S. federal […]
Last week, global media company Great Big Story released a four-minute short film, The Disease Detectives Stop Outbreaks at Their Source, which highlights CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (also known as Disease Detectives). The film sought to learn more about risks from the potentially-deadly leptospirosis in the US Virgin Islands (USVI). Caitlin Cossaboom, who works in CDC’s […]
Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar issued the following statement regarding the current measles outbreaks around the United States: “The United States is seeing a resurgence of measles, a disease that had once been effectively eliminated from our country. And today, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has confirmed that ongoing measles outbreaks […]
Historic rates of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) indicate that something about our response isn’t working. In fact, maybe even many things aren’t working. One thing is certain — not all clinical encounters are patient-centered. There are several elements that make up patient-centered care, including respect for patients’ preferences, encouraging patients’ involvement in their healthcare,...
By Lori Tremmel Freeman, NACCHO CEO “Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed there have been 626 individual cases of measles diagnosed across 22 states in the United States since the first of this year. We are on track to have the highest number of measles cases in the United States in 25 […]
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