Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

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Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)

• Microbiology
• Lab 7-3

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Epidemiology

• The MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
  reports data on the 58 notifiable (reportable)
  diseases that are tracked by the CDC.
• You will choose a notifiable diseases and collect
  data on this disease from the most recent
  complete calendar year, calculate incidence
  values and graph results.

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http//wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmorb.asp
U.S. population on July 1, 2009 was 307,006,550
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You must turn this empty table into this
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http//wonder.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwrmorb.asp
Start by choosing the YEAR and WEEK 01
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Scan the NNDSS Tables and pick a disease. I have
chosen Coccidioidomycosis from Table II (part 1)
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This is the week 1 number you want
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Week 1 number goes here
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This your week 2 cumulative number
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Week 2 cumulative number goes here
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Calculate the 4-week Totals
Calculate the Incidence Values for each 4-week
period.
Incidence rate of new cases in the time
period divided by the population size
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Your graph Cumulative of cases versus Week
Your graph Incidence versus Week