Reporting Notifiable Infectious Diseases

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By Anna Matthews, RDH, MS

When health care professionals, researchers, and the general public are looking for health-related information—such as disease prevalence, signs and symptoms of diseases or disorders, and methods of treatment and prevention—the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) offers a wealth of resources on its website: cdc.gov. It is frequently the main source of accurate and updated information on health and disease in the US. To provide the public with these data, the CDC must collect and analyze information from a network of local and state health departments.

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