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Table 2 listed on pages 703–15 summarizes finalized data, as of June 30, 2014, from the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System (NNDSS) for 2013. These data will be published in more detail next year in the Summary of Notifiable Diseases — United States, 2013 (1). Because no cases were reported in the United States during 2013, the following diseases do not appear in these early release tables: anthrax; diphtheria; eastern equine encephalitis, nonneuroinvasive disease; poliovirus infection, nonparalytic; severe acute respiratory syndrome–associated coronavirus disease (SARS-CoV); smallpox; St.

Effective August 1, 2014, subscribers who currently receive printed copies of MMWR at no cost directly from CDC each week will no longer receive them. This decision was reached after careful consideration of the costs of printing and mailing. Distribution of printed copies of MMWR serial publications (i.

The MMWR Weekly policy regarding listing of authors has changed. Contributing authors are now listed as "authors," rather than "contributors." Criteria for authorship of all MMWR reports now follow the recommendations of the International Committee on Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE): "Authorship credit should be based on 1) substantial contributions to conception and design, acquisition of data, or analysis and interpretation of data; 2) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and 3) final approval of the version to be published.