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  • Increases in Drug and Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths — United States, 2010–2015

    The figure above is a photograph of a man sitting in front of a wall. December 16, 2016
    The U.S. opioid epidemic is continuing, and drug overdose deaths nearly tripled during 1999–2014. Among 47,055 drug overdose deaths that occurred in 2014 in the United States, 28,647 (60.9%) involved an opioid. CDC examined overall drug overdose death rates during 2010–2015 and opioid overdose death rates during 2014–2015. During 2015, drug overdoses accounted for 52,404 U.S. deaths, including 33,091 (63.1%) that involved an opioid. There has been progress in preventing methadone deaths. However, rates of deaths involving other opioids, specifically heroin and synthetic opioids other than methadone (likely driven primarily by illicitly manufactured fentanyl), increased sharply overall and across many states.

Current Weekly

  • Resurgence of Progressive Massive Fibrosis in Coal Miners — Eastern Kentucky, 2016

    The figure above is a photograph showing a miner’s helmet among coal.December 16, 2016
    The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 (amended in 1977) preceded a sharp decline in the prevalence of progressive massive fibrosis (PMF), the most severe form of coal workers’ pneumoconiosis. In recent years, surveillance data have indicated a resurgence of PMF. On June 9, 2016, a radiologist contacted the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to report a sharp increase during the past 2 years in the number of PMF cases among coal miner patients seen at his practice serving the easternmost counties of Kentucky.

  • Assessing Change in Avian Influenza A(H7N9) Virus Infections During the Fourth Epidemic — China, September 2015–August 2016

    The figure above is a photograph showing a H7N9 avian flu investigation in China.December 16, 2016
    Mainland China has experienced four annual avian influenza A (H7N9) epidemics since human infections from the virus were first reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in March 2013. Epidemiology and virology data from the most recent epidemic (September 2015–August 2016) suggest no evidence of increased transmissibility of A(H7N9) virus from poultry or environmental exposures to humans or of sustained human-to-human transmission.

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Surveillance Summaries

  • Abortion Surveillance — United States, 2013

    November 25, 2016
    Since 1969, CDC has conducted abortion surveillance to document the number and characteristics of women obtaining legal induced abortions in the United States. Each year, CDC requests abortion data from the central health agencies of 52 reporting areas (the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and New York City). The reporting areas provide this information voluntarily. For 2013, data were received from 49 reporting areas. For trend analysis, abortion data were evaluated from 47 areas that reported data every year during 2004–2013.

Recommendations and Reports

  • Core Elements of Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship

    November 11, 2016
    Antibiotic stewardship is the effort to measure and improve how antibiotics are prescribed by clinicians and used by patients. Improving antibiotic prescribing involves implementing effective strategies to modify prescribing practices to align them with evidence-based recommendations for diagnosis and management. This report provides a framework for antibiotic stewardship for outpatient clinicians and facilities that routinely provide antibiotic treatment. Establishing effective antibiotic stewardship interventions can protect patients and improve clinical outcomes in outpatient health care settings.

Notifiable Diseases

  • Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Conditions — United States, 2014

    October 14, 2016
    Health-care providers in the United States are required to report certain infectious diseases to a specified state or local authority. A disease is designated as notifiable if timely information about individual cases is considered necessary for prevention and control of the disease. Each year, CDC publishes a summary of the cases of notifiable disease reported for the most recent year for which data is available. This report presents a summary of notifiable diseases for 2014.

  • Summary of Notifiable Noninfectious Conditions and Disease Outbreaks

    October 14, 2016
    The 2016 Summary of Notifiable Noninfectious Conditions and Disease Outbreaks — United States contains official statistics for the occurrence of nationally notifiable noninfectious conditions and disease outbreaks and is published for the second time in the same volume of MMWR as the annual Summary of Notifiable Infectious Diseases and Conditions. The summary includes seven chapters addressing the following subjects: acute pesticide-related illness and injury arising from occupational exposure, acute nonoccupational pesticide-related illness and injury, cancer, elevated blood lead levels among children, elevated blood lead levels among adults, silicosis, and foodborne and waterborne disease outbreaks. CDC’s Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, and Laboratory Services (CSELS) coordinated the development and publication of this annual summary.

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