Conditions associated with critical biologic agents that were nationally
notifiable, reported to NNDSS, and included in this study were anthrax, botulism, brucellosis, cholera, plague, tularemia, and selected viral encephalitides.
The Government has been resisting demands to make Sars
notifiable, giving the authorities sweeping powers to detain suspected sufferers.
The assessment results for 2013 and 2014 were used to populate the "N" indicators for NNDSS data in the MMWR Summary of
Notifiable Diseases--United States, 2013 and the NNDSS weekly provisional MMWR
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables I and II for 2014, respectively.
ACHD personnel estimate that 40% of all
notifiable infectious diseases reported to the ACHD come from UPMC.
Campylobacteriosis has been added to the list of nationally
notifiable infectious diseases and conditions.
One component of the existing surveillance system is weekly reports to CDC's national
notifiable disease system from each state epidemiologist designating the level of influenza activity during the preceding week.
NNDSS is a public health surveillance system that collects data on nationally
notifiable diseases in the United States and its territories (3).
The Summary of
Notifiable Diseases--United States (http://www.cdc.gov/ mmwr/mmwr_nd/index.html) is published annually, approximately 18 months after the end of the calendar year.
States report
notifiable disease cases to CDC through the National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS).
Because of delays in the collection, processing, and analysis of data from the 2011 Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists (CSTE) State Reportable Conditions Assessment (SRCA), 2011 SRCA data could not be applied to the National
Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) data in the MMWR NNDSS Tables I and II for 2011 or 2012.
In "Summary of
Notifiable Diseases, United States, 2010" multiple errors occurred.
Effective with this issue, the weekly
Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables (i.e., Figure I and Tables I, II, and III) no longer will be included in print copies of the MMWR weekly publication.
