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In the United States, heart disease mortality has decreased since the 1950s (1). However, these declines have not occurred uniformly across the country, and slower rates of decline may indicate increased need for heart disease prevention policies and programs (2). In this article, we document the geographic inequalities in declining heart disease death rates in the South — a region with high heart disease mortality rates. We also consider methods for generating county-level estimates of changing heart disease death rates.

This year on World Stroke Day (October 29), the World Stroke Organization is launching a global campaign focusing on women and stroke. More women than men die from stroke each year (1). Stroke is the second leading cause of death for persons aged >60 years and the third leading cause of disability-adjusted life-years worldwide (2,3).

On October 21, 2014, this report was posted as an MMWR Early Release on the MMWR website (http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr).

Jean Clare Smith, MD1, Alan R Hinman, MD2, Larry K. Pickering, MD1 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Robert M. Brackbill, PhD1, Kimberly Caramanica, MPH1, Maret Maliniak1,2, Steven D. Stellman, PhD1,3, Monique A.

Theodore L. Aquino, DO1, Gary T. Brice, PhD2, Sherry Hayes, MPH3, Christopher A.

Sunil Bahl, MD1, Rakesh Kumar, MD2, Nata Menabde, PhD3, Arun Thapa, MBBS4, Jeffrey McFarland, MD4, Virginia Swezy, MPH4, Rudolph H. Tangermann, MD5, Hamid S. Jafari, MD5, Linda Elsner6, Steven G.

World Polio Day was established for annual observance on October 24 by Rotary International more than a decade ago to commemorate the fight against poliomyelitis. Widespread use of poliovirus vaccine led to an increasing number of polio-free countries and to establishment of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988. As of October 14, a total of 243 polio cases had been reported in 2014, with 92% of the cases reported from Nigeria, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, the only three countries where transmission of indigenous wild poliovirus has continued uninterrupted (1).