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Influenza surveillance report no. 91, 1975-1976
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July 1977
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Alternative Title:Guidelines for control of nosocomial influenza;Recommendation of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Influenza vaccine;
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Corporate Authors:Center for Disease Control. Immunization Division. ; Center for Disease Control. Bureau of Bureau of Epidemiology. Respiratory and Special Pathogens Branch. ; Center for Disease Control. Bureau of Laboratories. Respiratory Virology Branch. ; United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practice. ; World Health Organization. International Influenza Center for the Americas
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Description:"The 1975-1976 influenza season was noteworthy because of several events. a) An H3N2 influenza virus (A/Victoria/3/75), isolated first in April 1975, caused a widespread epidemic late in the influenza season in the United States. Based on pneumonia and influenza-associated mortality which peaked in February and March 1976, this was the most severe epidemic experienced by the United States since the 1968-1969 Hong Kong epidemic. b) In January and February an outbreak of influenza among recruits at Fort Dix, New Jersey, yielded 5 isolates of a virus resembling swine influenza strains. This discovery led to unprecedented investigations and to the recommendation for a nationwide influenza vaccination program in the fall of 1976. Furthermore, influenza surveillance activities were intensified and continued into the summer to search for any other evidence of infection of man by swine influenza-like virus. c) A total of 5 distinct strains of influenza A viruses were isolated in a single season--A/Port Chalmers/l/73, A/Victoria/3/75, A/England/864/75, A/Tokyo/l/75 (all H3N2 strains), and A/New Jersey/8/76, the H1Nl virus from Fort Dix. In the 1975-1976 season the Center for Disease Control (CDC) influenza surveillance data processing for the first time was done by computer. The data processing systems developed this season greatly augmented the capacity for handling multiple types of influenza surveillance data in large amounts from all sections of the United States." p. [1]
Appendix: ACIP recommendations, 1976, consists of : Recommendation of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Influenza vaccine - preliminary statement (June 1976; Published MMWR: Vol. 25, No. 21, June 4, 1976); Recommendation of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Influenza vaccine - supplemental statement (July 1976; Published MMWR: Vol. 25. No. 25, 1976); recommendations of the Committee on Infectious Diseases of the American Academy of Pediatrics: Immunization of children at high risk from influenza infection (September 1976; published in MMWR Vol. 25, No. 36, 1976); and: Recommendation of the Public Health Service Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices: Influenza vaccine - second supplemental statement (November 1976; Published MMWR: Vol. 25. No. 45, 1976)
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Content Notes:Issued July 1977.
This report was prepared by: Center for Disease Control, Bureau of State Services, National Influenza Immunization Program, Surveillance and Assessment Center, Information Systems and National Influenza Immunization Program, Immunization Division; Center for Disease Control, Bureau of Epidemiology, Viral Diseases Division, Respiratory and Special Pathogens Branch, Statistical Services & Evaluation Branch. Collaborators: Bureau of Laboratories, Virology Division, Respiratory Virology Branch; World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Influenza, CDC.
Last page consists of a listing by state of state epidemiologists, February 11, 1976.
"Summarized in this report is information received from State Health Departments, university investigators, virology laboratories and other pertinent sources, domestic and foreign. Much of the information is preliminary. It is intended primarily for the use of those with responsibility for disease control activities. Anyone desiring to quote this report should contact the original investigator for confirmation and interpretation." - preface
Center for Disease Control: Influenza Surveillance Report No. 91. Issued July 1977.
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Pages in Document:print; 46, [1] p,: tables, maps ; 28 cm.
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