The roots of modern public health Surveillance took hold in 17th century Europe (1), but the seed for CDC's role as America's national agency for collecting, analyzing, interpreting, and using data to protect the public's health was firmly planted only in 1961, when the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) was transferred to what was then the Communicable Disease Center (CDC; now the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) (2). The advent of MMWR at CDC marked the beginning of CDC's responsibility for aggregating and publishing data weekly on nationally notifiable Diseases and publishing the data annually in MMWR's Summary of Notifiable Diseases, United States
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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Alexander Langmuir became the first Chief Epidemiologist at CDC (then called the Communicable Disease Center) in 1949. One of his many enduring contri...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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As an Epidemiology bulletin, MMWR has unique strengths and attributes. These include weekly publication (highlighting timeliness and frequency of repo...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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MMWR was established to disseminate the results of public health Surveillance and owes much of its existence to the founder of modern Surveillance, Wi...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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Injuries and violence are widespread in society. Unintentional injuries and injuries caused by acts of violence are among the top 10 killers of U.S. r...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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Alexander Langmuir, founder of the CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), was quoted in the early 1960s instructing incoming EIS officers that the o...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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In the 50 years since MMWR became a responsibility of CDC, understanding has been enhanced of Diseases now prevented by vaccines, many new vaccines ha...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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The MMWR description of five cases of Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) among homosexual men in Los Angeles was the first published report about an...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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When CDC was established in 1946 (as the Communicable Disease Center), the U.S. Public Health Service borrowed statistical Methods developed by Floren...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of CDC's publication of MMWR. It also marks the 24th anniversary of the National Center for Health Statistics...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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Since 1946, CDC has provided rapid assistance to states, federal agencies, international organizations, and ministries of health, often through formal...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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This supplement of MMWR celebrates the 50th anniversary of CDC's first publication of MMWR on January 13, 1961 (Figure 1). MMWR was not new in 1961, b...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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As MMWR celebrates its 50th year at CDC, a review of MMWR articles provides evidence that CDC's global activities have become firmly established as pa...
October 7, 2011 | MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report ; v. 60, suppl
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During the past century in the United States, advances in public health and health care have increased life expectancy by approximately 30 years and l...