Notice to Readers
Changes in National Notifiable Diseases
and Mortality Data Presentation
This issue of MMWR incorporates modifications to Tables I-III,
Cases
of Notifiable Diseases, United States, and to Table IV, Deaths in
121
U.S. Cities. This year, the purposes of the notifiable disease
modifications are to add nationally notifiable diseases recently
designated reportable in 25 states and to group selected
vaccine-preventable diseases. Except where otherwise indicated, the
data
presented in the notifiable disease tables are transmitted to CDC
through
the National Electronic Telecommunications System for Surveillance
(NETSS).
Table I. For the infectious diseases added during 1995 to the
list
of nationally notifiable diseases that are reportable in 25-39
states,
data will now be included in Table I; these diseases are
post-diarrheal
hemolytic uremic syndrome and invasive group A streptococcal
disease.
Because not all nationally notifiable diseases are reportable in
every
state or territory, the reported number of cases of some diseases
in
Table I represent only the totals from states or territories in
which the
diseases are reportable.
Tables II and III. Although not all disease caused by
different
serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis are preventable by
vaccination, the
currently available polysaccharide vaccine is used to control
outbreaks
caused by vaccine-preventable serogroups. Conjugate vaccines
designed for
potential use in routine infant vaccination programs for the
prevention
of disease caused by selected serogroups (e.g., serogroup C) are
also
being evaluated; therefore, reports of meningococcal disease will
be
moved from Table II to Table III.
Table IV. The reporting area of Madison (Dane County),
Wisconsin,
will no longer be included in the 121 Cities Mortality Reporting
System.
Because of the large catchment area for Dane County, Wisconsin, it
will
be replaced by two county reporting areas: Boise (Ada County),
Idaho, and
Lansing (Ingham County), Michigan. Therefore, Table IV will contain
122
cities and will be renamed "Deaths in 122 U.S. Cities."
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