MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
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In 1982, CDC initiated surveillance for Lyme disease (LD), and in 1990, the Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists adopted a resolution making LD a nationally notifiable disease. This report summarizes surveillance data for LD in the United States during 1993.
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MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. · Jul 1994
Legionnaires' disease associated with cooling towers--Massachusetts, Michigan, and Rhode Island, 1993.
From July through October 1993, outbreaks of Legionnaires' disease (LD) were reported from communities in Massachusetts and Rhode Island and from a state prison in Michigan. Cooling towers (CTs) were identified as the source of all three outbreaks. This report summarizes investigations by state and local health officials and CDC and efforts to control these outbreaks.
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MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. · Jul 1994
Update: external cause-of-injury coding in hospital discharge data--United States, 1994.
Although analysis of hospital discharge data (HDD) can provide important information about severe nonfatal injuries, HDD often do not include information about the causes of these injuries (e.g., motor-vehicle crashes and assaults). Inconsistent reporting of causes of injury has limited the usefulness of HDD for injury surveillance. The International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) includes codes for classifying external causes of injury (E-codes). This report describes progress in implementing E-code reporting in states.
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MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. · Mar 1994
Self-reported tuberculin skin testing among Indian Health Service and Federal Bureau of Prisons dentists, 1993.
Surveillance of health-care workers (HCWs) for tuberculosis (TB) and assessment of TB transmission through routine periodic screening with tuberculin skin tests (TSTs) are essential components of effective TB-control programs in health-care settings (1). Based on TST results, risk for acquiring new infections can be assessed and infection-control practices modified accordingly. In 1993, a self-administered mail survey was conducted to characterize the TST practices and results among dentists in the Indian Health Service (IHS) and the Federal Bureau of Prisons (FBoP). This report summarizes the findings of the survey.