This Week in MMWR - Vol. 68, March 15, 2019

MMWR Weekly (No. 10) PDF of this issue

• Brain Injury Awareness Month — March 2019
  
• Emergency Department Visits for Sports- and Recreation-Related Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Children — United States, 2010–2016
  Kelly Sarmiento, MPH; Karen E. Thomas, MPH; Jill Daugherty, PhD; et al.
  
  
  Traumatic brain injury, a common injury among young athletes, can lead to short- or long-term emotional, physiologic, and cognitive sequelae.
  
• Diagnostic Methods Used to Classify Confirmed and Probable Cases of Spotted Fever Rickettsioses — United States, 2010–2015
  Alison M. Binder, MS; Kristen Nichols Heitman, MPH; Naomi A. Drexler, MPH.
  
• Risk Factors for Congenital Syphilis Transmitted from Mother to Infant — Suzhou, China, 2011–2014
  Yajie Wang, MPH; Minzhi Wu, MD; Xiangdong Gong, MD; et al.
  
• Notes from the Field: Botulism Outbreak Associated with Home-Canned Peas — New York City, 2018
  Genevieve Bergeron, MD; Julia Latash, MPH; Cherry-Ann Da Costa-Carter, MSc, MPH; et al.
  
• Notes from the Field: HIV Diagnoses Among Persons Who Inject Drugs — Northeastern Massachusetts, 2015–2018
  Kevin Cranston, MDiv; Charles Alpren, MBChB; Betsey John, MPH; et al.
  
• QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Death Rates, by State — United States, 2017