Microbe Monthly 2010

Microbe Monthly 2010

December

  • Influenza Season is Here!
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Meningococcal Vaccination Response at CSU
  • MMWR—Occupational Transmission of Neisseria Meningitidis

November

  • Norovirus, Unwelcome Winter Guest
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Influenza surveillance
  • Skunk Rabies Surveillance Update

October

  • New After-Hours Emergency Phone Number for CD/TB Program
  • National Increase in Pertussis—Whooping Cough
  • Influenza surveillance for the 2010-2011 season
  • 68 WNV cases have been reported

September

  • What’s New with Flu Vaccine?
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • West Nile Virus
  • Salmonella enteritidis

June - July

  • Summary of 2009 Reportable Infectious Diseases, Outbreaks and 
  • Trends of Gastrointestinal Infection Rates
  • Trends in Gastrointestinal Infection

May

  • Summer and Foodborne Illness
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • The Colorado Immunization Manual
  • Dengue Fever
  • High Mortality Rate Among Pregnant Women

April

  • Rabies in El Paso County
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Invasive pneumococcal disease
  • Interim state-specific  Influenza A (H1N1)
  • Tuberculosis rate

March

  • Communicable Diseases in International Adoptees
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Presumptive Abortive Human Rabies

February

  • Latest Nationwide Foodborne Disease Outbreak—Salmonella Montevideo
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Outbreak of E. Coli
  • MMWR-Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome (HPS) in Five Pediatric
  • Patients

January

  • Healthy People 2020
  • El Paso County Disease Trends
  • Use of the Campylobacter EIA test instead of culture
  • Rare gastrointestinal anthrax