• MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. · Mar 2018

    Initial Public Health Laboratory Response After Hurricane Maria - Puerto Rico, 2017.

    • Jeniffer Concepción-Acevedo, Anita Patel, Carolina Luna-Pinto, Rafael González Peña, Rosa Ivette Cuevas Ruiz, Héctor Rivera Arbolay, Mayra Toro, Carmen Deseda, Victor R De Jesus, Efrain Ribot, Jennifer-Quiñones Gonzalez, Gouthami Rao, Alfonsina De Leon Salazar, Marisela Ansbro, Brunilís B White, Margaret C Hardy, Joaudimir Castro Georgi, Rita Stinnett, Alexandra M Mercante, David Lowe, Haley Martin, Angela Starks, Beverly Metchock, Stephanie Johnston, Tracy Dalton, Olga Joglar, Cortney Stafford, Monica Youngblood, Katherine Klein, Stephen Lindstrom, LaShondra Berman, Renee Galloway, Ilana J Schafer, Henry Walke, Robyn Stoddard, Robin Connelly, Elaine McCaffery, Marie-Claire Rowlinson, Stephen Soroka, Darin T Tranquillo, Anne Gaynor, Chris Mangal, Kelly Wroblewski, Atis Muehlenbachs, Reynolds M Salerno, Matthew Lozier, Brittany Sunshine, Craig Shapiro, Dale Rose, Renee Funk, Satish K Pillai, and Eduardo O'Neill.
    • MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 2018 Mar 23; 67 (11): 333-336.

    AbstractHurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico on September 20, 2017, causing major damage to infrastructure and severely limiting access to potable water, electric power, transportation, and communications. Public services that were affected included operations of the Puerto Rico Department of Health (PRDOH), which provides critical laboratory testing and surveillance for diseases and other health hazards. PRDOH requested assistance from CDC for the restoration of laboratory infrastructure, surveillance capacity, and diagnostic testing for selected priority diseases, including influenza, rabies, leptospirosis, salmonellosis, and tuberculosis. PRDOH, CDC, and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) collaborated to conduct rapid needs assessments and, with assistance from the CDC Foundation, implement a temporary transport system for shipping samples from Puerto Rico to the continental United States for surveillance and diagnostic and confirmatory testing. This report describes the initial laboratory emergency response and engagement efforts among federal, state, and nongovernmental partners to reestablish public health laboratory services severely affected by Hurricane Maria. The implementation of a sample transport system allowed Puerto Rico to reinitiate priority infectious disease surveillance and laboratory testing for patient and public health interventions, while awaiting the rebuilding and reinstatement of PRDOH laboratory services.

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