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Talk with your teen’s clinician about meningococcal vaccination to help protect your child’s health. Meningococcal disease is a very serious illness where death can occur in as little as a few hours.

Bethany A. West, MPH.

Infections with carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)* are increasing among patients in medical facilities (1). CRE that produce Klebsiella pneumoniae carbapenemase (KPC) have been responsible for much of the increase in the United States. However, New Delhi metallo-?-lactamase (NDM)–producing CRE have the potential to add to this burden.

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CDC supports adolescent and school health efforts using three state-of-the-art monitoring systems designed to collect, analyze, and disseminate data on youth risk behaviors and school health policies and practices.

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Guidance for the Prevention and Control of Influenza in the Peri- and Postpartum Settings - CDC

Laura Edison, DVM1,2, Denise Hughes2, Cherie Drenzek, DVM2, Jane Kelly, MD2,3 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Table I   Summary of provisional cases of selected notifiable diseases, United States, cumulative, week ending January 18, 2014 (3rd Week).

January 3, 2014 / Vol. 62 / Nos. 51 & 52 / Pg.