Notice to Readers
Availability of Case Definitions for Infectious Conditions under
Public Health Surveillance on Internet
The 1997 MMWR Recommendations and Reports, Case Definitions
for Infectious Conditions under Public Health Surveillance (1), is
now available on the Internet. This document provides updated
uniform criteria for state health department personnel to use when
reporting notifiable diseases to CDC. The reported numbers of
cases of selected notifiable diseases are printed each week in
Tables I-III of MMWR.
Since May 2, 1997, the complete document has been available
as a .pdf file (Adobe Acrobat portable document format) from CDC's
MMWR World-Wide Web (WWW) page and from CDC's file transfer
protocol server at ftp.cdc.gov/. In response to high demand from
state and local health departments, case definitions for specific
conditions are now accessible individually from the Case
Definitions for Infectious Conditions under Public Health
Surveillance WWW site at http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/
other/case_def/about.html. To facilitate analysis of historical
surveillance data, the original case definitions from the 1990
publication Case Definitions for Public Health Surveillance (2)
and intermediate revisions are linked at this website to their
1997 revised versions. Revisions to these case definitions will be
added to this WWW site when approved by the Council of State and
Territorial Epidemiologists.
References
CDC. Case definitions for infectious conditions under public
health surveillance. MMWR 1997; 46(no. RR-10).
CDC. Case definitions for public health surveillance. MMWR
1990;39(no. RR-13).
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