Leveraging Existing Birth Defects Surveillance Infrastructure to Build Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Surveillance Systems --- Illinois, New Mexico, and Vermont, 2015--2016

Published on February 21, 2019

Estimates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) incidence during 2105 were 3.0 per 1,000 births for Illinois, 7.5 for New Mexico, and 30.8 for Vermont. Of the four diagnosis codes for NAS evaluated, those for infant drug withdrawal had the highest positive predictive values for identifying confirmed NAS cases.

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Transmission Patterns in a Low HIV-Morbidity State --- Wisconsin, 2014--2017

February 14, 2019
Most human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) molecular linkages in Wisconsin were among persons within the same racial/ethnic, risk, and age groups. Among named partner linkages where both persons had an HIV virus sequence available, 33.8% also had a molecular linkage and were deemed plausible transmission partners.

Notes from the Field: Measles Outbreak in an Era of Stricter Immunization Requirements --- California, March 2018

February 28, 2019
On March 4, 2018, an unvaccinated adolescent boy, aged 15 years, who had recently returned from England and Wales, where measles outbreaks were occurring, was evaluated by a physician for fever, cough, coryza, conjunctivitis, Koplik spots, and rash. Measles virus nucleic acid was detected in an oropharyngeal swab and in urine tested at the Santa Clara County (California) Public Health Department.