Across several densely populated cities, the number of people walking to work is 3.4 percent higher for every extra dollar charged for a day’s parking. Active commuting is another way more Americans could be physically active. Cities: Physical activity is important for health, but less than half of Americans get enough activity through recreation. Parking Prices and Walking and Bicycling to Work in U.S.The Role of Internet Meet-up Sites and Mobile Device Applications in Facilitating an Early Syphilis Outbreak - Multnomah County, Oregon, 2014: Are phone apps helping sexually transmitted diseases go viral? EIS officers looked at how technology is changing the way syphilis spreads-and how it may offer new tools for intervention.Norovirus Syndromic Surveillance Among Commercial Tour Bus Passengers: A Pilot Project - Yellowstone National Park, August 2014: During a pilot project, a CDC disease detective uncovered five potential norovirus clusters on overnight Yellowstone National Park tour buses in August 2014, a new way to potentially ruin a vacation.Most of the patients hospitalized with respiratory disease were children and many had a history of asthma more than half required intensive care. Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with a Nationwide Outbreak of Enterovirus D68-United States, 2014: A CDC disease detective investigated the largest reported national outbreak of EVD68 to better understand who was most affected.Other featured presentations during the conference demonstrate the wide range of public health activities that EIS officers are involved in at CDC, including: Rapid containment of Ebola using contact tracing following an imported case of Ebola Virus Disease - Senegal, 2014: Ebola might well have become a much larger problem in Senegal - but a rapid intervention by Senegal, WHO, CDC and others helped avert a major epidemic in the country.Īs important as it is, Ebola is only one of many health threats that CDC disease detectives have investigated.Disease detectives used Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) and computer modeling to investigate how Ebola swept through one village in Sierra Leone, where cases occurred in 27 of 64 households. Geospatial Analysis of Household Spread of Ebola Virus in a Quarantined Village - Sierra Leone, 2014: In West Africa, Ebola has spread quickly in remote villages.Learn how New York City responded when a returning healthcare worker developed Ebola after working in a West African Ebola treatment unit. Public Health Response to an Imported Case of Ebola Virus Disease - New York City, 2014: As healthcare workers return from West Africa, close monitoring and rapid response are critical to decrease the risk of Ebola in the U.S.Get a look inside CDC's rigorous 3-day training course in protective gear for clinicians volunteering to treat Ebola patients in West Africa. Readying the Responders-Infection Control Training for US Clinicians Bound for West Africa: When Ebola cases began to surge in West Africa, it was clear that more doctors were needed to help.Ebola presentations at this year’s conference include: CDC director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, will open the conference with remarks on Monday morning, and attend several sessions throughout the week.ĭuring the past year, nearly every current EIS officer deployed either to West Africa or within the United States in support of the Ebola response. and international-based investigations conducted over the past year. Monday through Thursday, CDC’s EIS officers will present their research findings from U.S. The event showcases recent ground-breaking and often times life-saving investigations by CDC disease detectives.ĮIS officers will share details of investigations that placed them in the thick of some of the world’s most challenging public health events.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is holding its 64th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) conference April 20-23, 2015 in Atlanta.