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This vaccine prevents hepatitis B, a serious liver disease that causes 4000-5000 deaths per year in the United States. Before hepatitis B vaccine became available, 200-300,000 persons in the United States were infected each year, including approximately 20,000 infants and young children. During the past 20 years, substantial progress has been made in implementing vaccination strategies that have reduced new HBV infections, and CDC estimates that <80,000 persons were infected in 2001. However, a number of challenges remain in order to achieve the goal of eliminating transmission of hepatitis B virus. These include: maintaining high vaccination coverage among infants and adolescents and expanding efforts to vaccinate adults who are at risk for infection.
| PRESS CONTACT: Pavani Kalluri, MD CDC, National Center for Infectious Diseases (404) 639鈥?206 (Alternate: Amita Gupta, MD, same phone number) |
Since 1998, multidrug-resistant strains of Salmonella Newport have emerged and have now spread to many parts of the United States. These strains are characterized by decreased susceptibility or resistance to at least nine of 17 antimicrobial agents tested, including ceftriaxone, an antimicrobial agent important in the treatment of Salmonella infections in children. Because treatment with ceftriaxone may be ineffective against these multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport strains, clinicians should be informed of the emergence of these pathogens. This multi-state outbreak implicated the eating of undercooked or raw ground beef as a risk factor for infection with multidrug-resistant Salmonella Newport.
| PRESS CONTACT: Donita Croft, MD, MS Wisconsin Division of Public Health (608) 267鈥?004 |
During November and December 2001, seventy-five persons from Northwestern Wisconsin became ill with Campylobacter jejuni enteritis. This outbreak was associated with drinking unpasteurized milk obtained through a cow-leasing program that was used to circumvent regulations prohibiting the sale of unpasteurized milk in Wisconsin. Consumers paid an initial fee to lease part of a cow. Farm operators then milked the cows and stored the milk from all leased cows together in a bulk tank. Customers either picked up milk at the farm or farm operators had it delivered. To ensure that unpasteurized milk will not be distributed to the public in Wisconsin, state officials are enforcing existing regulations and prohibiting cow-leasing systems. For more information on Campylobacter visit this CDC website http://www.cy118119.com/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/campylobacter_g.htm.
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