International Circumpolar Surveillance (ICS) is a population-based surveillance system for invasive bacterial diseases established in the U.S. Arctic, Northern Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Northern Sweden. Data collection began in 1999 and includes information on disease caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, Neisseria meningitidis, and groups A and B Streptococcus (GAS, GBS). This report reviews the data collected for the year 2005.

ICS is a cooperative project funded by the Coordinating Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and by the Public Health Agency of Canada in Ottawa, Canada.

ICS is a cooperative project funded by the National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, and by the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control (LCDC) in Ottawa, Canada.

Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library collection
Arctic Investigations Program