Uterine Cancer Incidence and Mortality --- United States, 1999--2016

Published on December 6, 2018

During 1999-2015 and 1999-2016, uterine cancer incidence and mortality rates increased 0.7% and 1.1% per year, respectively, with black women disproportionately affected.

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Multistate Infestation with the Exotic Disease--Vector Tick Haemaphysalis longicornis --- United States, August 2017--September 2018 CE Button Index Page

November 29, 2018
Haemaphysalis longicornis is a tick indigenous to eastern Asia and an important vector of human and animal disease agents, resulting in such outcomes as human hemorrhagic fever and reduction of production in dairy cattle by 25%. H. longicornis was discovered on a sheep in New Jersey in August 2017 (1).

Low and Decreasing Prevalence and Rate of False Positive HIV Diagnosis --- Chókwè District, Mozambique, 2014-2017

December 13, 2018
From 2014 to 2017, the annual rate of false positive diagnosis pf human immunodeficiency virus in Chókwè district, Mozambique decreased from 0.66% to 0.00%, and the cumulative false diagnosis rate was 0.56%, compared with the median rate of 3.1% reported in the systematic review.