MMWR Vol. 64 / No. 1

MMWR Vol. 64 / No. 1

MMWR Weekly Vol. 64, No. 1 January 16, 2015

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National Birth Defects Prevention Month and Folic Acid Awareness Week — January 2015 MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:1

Updated Estimates of Neural Tube Defects Prevented by Mandatory Folic Acid Fortification — United States, 1995–2011 Jennifer Williams, MSN, Cara T. Mai, DrPH, Joe Mulinare, MD, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:1-5 Enriching cereal grains with folic acid helped lead to a decline in neural tube defects in the United States.

Supplement Use and Other Characteristics Among Pregnant Women with a Previous Pregnancy Affected by a Neural Tube Defect — United States, 1997–2009 Annelise Arth, MPH, Sarah Tinker, PhD, Cynthia Moore, MD, PhD, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:6-9

Early Estimates of Seasonal Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness — United States, January 2015 Brendan Flannery, PhD, Jessie Clippard, MPH, Richard K. Zimmerman, MD, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:10-5

Incidence of Notifiable Diseases Among American Indians/Alaska Natives — United States, 2007–2011 Nelson Adekoya, DrPH, Benedict Truman, MD, Michael Landen, MD. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:16-9

Improving Burial Practices and Cemetery Management During an Ebola Virus Disease Epidemic — Sierra Leone, 2014 Carrie F. Nielsen, PhD, Sarah Kidd, MD, Ansumana R.M. Sillah, PhD, MD, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:20-7

Use of a Nationwide Call Center for Ebola Response and Monitoring During a 3-Day House-to-House Campaign — Sierra Leone, September 2014 Leigh Ann Miller, PhD, Thomas Sukalac, Emily Stanger, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:28-9

Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Diarrheal Illness Caused by Shigella flexneri — American Samoa, May–June 2014 Julia E. Painter, PhD, Allison Taylor Walker, PhD, Jarratt Pytell, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:30

Announcement: Updates to the Overseas Immunization Program for United States–Bound Refugees MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:31

QuickStats: Rates of Deaths from Drug Poisoning and Drug Poisoning Involving Opioid Analgesics — United States, 1999–2013 Li-Hui Chen, PhD, Holly Hedegaard, MD; Margaret Warner, PhD MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2015;64:32

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