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1. Suspected Neurotoxic Shellfish Poisoning, Sarasota County
2. Update: Flu and RSV
3. CDC Flu Website link
4. Journal Watch Direct for Friday, November 23rd, 2001
5. Florida Professionals in Infection Control Conference Report
6. Guidelines for Submission of Articles for the Epi Update
7. Weekly Disease Table

1. West Nile Surveillance
2. Influenza Virus and RSV Report
3. Weekly Disease Table (46)

1. Public Health Preparedness for Threats and Emergencies

1. CDC Updates
2. Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report

1. Update: CDC Statement regarding postal and other mailroom facilities in the Metropolitan Washington DC area
2. Update: Recommendations for Handling Suspicious Packages or Envelopes
3. West Nile virus surveillance summary 10/26/01
4. Notices: CDC Information Number & Clinical Package
5. Weekly Disease Table (42)

1. CDC Update: Summary of Confirmed Cases of B. anthracis
2. Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Bacillus anthracis
3. DOH Documents for Laboratory Analysis of Clinical and Environmental Specimens
4. Protecting Investigators from Exposure to Bacillus anthracis
5. CDC Prophylaxis Recommendations for Workers and Visitors to the Washington D.C. Processing and Distribution Center

6. West Nile Virus Hotline

1. Update: Recommendations for Visitors or Employees of Hart Senate Building
2. Hand-Held Immunoassays For Detection of Bacillus anthracis Spores
3. CDC, MMWR, Latest Recommendations for Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
4. Update: Influenza Vaccine Distribution
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. CDC Recommendations for visitors or employees who were in the Hart Senate building on October 15, 2001

1. West Nile Virus Update, Two Additional Human Cases
2. Public Health Update: Second Anthrax Case
3. Palm Beach County Public Health Notice
4. CDC Guidelines for State Health Departments

1. Guidelines for Surveillance of Cutaneous Anthrax
2. Public Health Update: Cleanup of Boca Raton Main Post office

1. CDC Health Alert 
2. Georgia Oyster Outbreak Linked to Florida 
3. Foodborne Hepatitis A Outbreak 
4. Weekly Disease Table

1. FLDOH Guidelines for "Anthrax Contaminated" Parcels
2. Procedures for Items Deemed "Less Than Credible" 
3. Guidelines for Police/Fire Personnel Picking Up Suspicious Packages and/or Letters
4. Active Laboratory Surveillance of B. anthracis

1. Anthrax Health Alert Update !!!
2. Anthrax Health Alert
3. Influenza and Influenza Surveillance Begins
4. Arboviral Update

1. Statewide West Nile Virus Hotline
2. Dr. Steven Wiersma Named Chief of the Bureau of Epi and State Epidemiologist
3. Florida Salmonella Enteritis Outbreak Study
4. Anthrax and Samllpox Vaccine Availability
5. CSTE Hep A IG
6. RSV Surveillance Continues
7. Arbovirus Program Info Online
8. Weekly Disease Table

1. Arboviral Disease Update: Twelve New Counties Added to Medical Alert

1. WNV & EEE Update!!
2. Terrorist Attack at the World Trade Center, Public Health Issues
3. Morbidity Report Published
4. NEDSS
5. Grand Rounds: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
6. Weekly Disease Table

1. Epidemiologic Investigation of Genetically-Linked Salmonella serotype Rubislaw Infections
2. Surveillance for Bioterrorism
3. Public Health Responds to Terrorist Attack
4. UPDATE!! Sixth Annual Emergency Preparedness Satellite Seminar
5. Status of Lyme Disease in the South
6. Grand Rounds: Tuesday, September 25, 2001
7. Bioterrorism: Guidelines for Hospitals Brochure
8. Hepatitis A&B Informational CD-Rom
9. Weekly Disease Table

1. Arboviral Diseases Update
2. Weekly Disease Table

1. Arbovirus Update
2. Reaching out to the Healthcare Community
3. Immunization Update Teleconference
4. Weekly Disease Table

1. Arbovirus Update
2. Professional Training Development Opportunity
3. August Grand Rounds/Tuesday August 28
4. WMD-Live Response Broadcast
5. Weekly Morbidity table

1. EEE Alert
2. August Grand Rounds 
3. No Need for Hard Copies 
4. Proposed Malaria Form 
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Meningococcal Disease in College Students 
2. Information Needlestick Safety and Prevention 
3. Interested in Influenza Surveillance? 
4. Infectious Disease Updates 
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Arbovirus Update - August 3, 2001
2. Meningococcal Outbreak and Vaccination Campaign
3. Environmental Management in a Boy Sout Camp Outbreak
4. Annual Epidemiology Seminar Canceled
5. Steve Alderson Receives Web Manager Award
6. Weekly Disease Table

1. Norwalk-Like Illness Outbreak
2. West Nile Virus Update
3. Arbovirus Brochure
4. West Nile Virus Surveillance and Merlin 
5. Meningococcal Outbreak Update 
6. Meningococcal Outbreak, University of North Florida campus, Jacksonville/Duval County 
7. Bioterrorism Preparedness Activities
8. Distance Learning Teleconference
9. Epidemiology Grand Rounds
10. Future Grand Rounds
11. Weekly Disease Table.

1. West Nile Virus Update

1. Dr. Steven Wiersma Appointed as Acting Bureau Chief and State Epidemiologist
2. West Nile Virus Found in Georgia Bird; No Human Cases Found
3. New information from CDC 
4. Grand Rounds for Tuesday, July 31, 2001
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Florida Reports West Nile Virus
2. Testing for Arboviral Encephalitis
3. State-Specific Report of Viral Hepatitis Surveillance
4. Dates Set for Annual Statewide Epidemiology Seminar
5. Operation Snowbird
6. Grand Rounds
7. Weekly Disease Table

1. Florida Reports West Nile Virus
2. Rabies Bytes
3. Medical Alert Issued for Eastern Equine Encephalitis in the Panhandle
4. In Case you were wondering Deparment
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Update on the Counties’ Use of Program Code 09 Hepatitis Vaccine and Laboratory Testing for High Risk Adults 
2. Weekly Disease Table

1. Preliminary Report: Investigation of an Increase in Hepatitis A Virus Infection in Broward County 
2. Florida Hepatitis and Liver Failure Prevention and Control Program Update
3. Weekly Disease Table

1. CSTE Meeting Notes
2. (New Mexico) State Labs Flunk Tests on Spotting Anthrax
3. Weekly Disease Table

1. Immunization Update
2. West Nile Virus Vaccine
3. "Principles of Public Health " Presentations
4. Flu Website
5. Weekly Disease Tables

1. Hepatitis A Outbreak, Lake and Sumter County, November-December 2000
2. Gastrointestinal Illness Outbreak at an Assisted Living Facility Seminole County, Florida, April 2001
3. Cyclospora Outbreak in Palm Beach County
4. The 2001 Wildfire Season
5. Surveillance of Morbidity during Wildfires
6. Quicker Access to Our Sites
7. Weekly Disease Table

1. Summary report: Influenza activity in Florida, 2000-2001 season
2. Hepatitis Extended Data
3. Comparison of Hepatitis NETSS Extended Records From Merlin and Epi Info Morbidity Databases 
4. Grand Rounds for Tuesday May 29, 2001
5. The 38th Annual Florida Pesticide Workshop & the 4th Annual Florida Foodborne Pathogen Analysis Conference 
6. California State Health Director Advises Consumers to Scrub Cantaloupe before Eating 
7. Weekly Disease Table

1. The Florida Department of Health Tampa Branch Laboratory is Moving 
2. The FDA Commissioner’s Special Citation Team Award
3. Open Job Opportunity Announcement
4. Grand Rounds for Tuesday May 29, 2001
5. Weekly Disease Table 

1. A Multi-state and International Hepatitis A Outbreak Associated With a Seafood Restaurant in Orlando
2. Death due to Malaria Imported from Tanzania
3. Grand Rounds for Tuesday May 29, 2001
4. The 38th Annual Florida Pesticide Workshop & the 4th Annual Florida Foodborne Pathogen Analysis Conference
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Changes in Reporting Resources

2. Weekly Disease Table

1. A Gastroenteritis Outbreak in a Miami-Dade County Childcare Facility
2. Grand Rounds for Tuesday April 24, 2001
3. Weekly Disease Table

1. National Shortage of Adult Td and TT Vaccines and Potential Shortage of DTaP Vaccine
2. Outbreak of Acute Respiratory Febrile Illness Among College Students -- Acapulco, Mexico, March 2001 
3. Rabies Bytes
4. Weekly Disease Table

1. Hepatitis A Outbreak In Methamphetamine Users - Polk County
2. Weekly Morbidity Reviews Now on Bureau Intranet Site
3. Florida Bird Mortality Reporting
4. Influenza Surveillance Update
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Humans Are Not at Risk from Foot-and-Mouth Disease
2. Merlin Helpful Hints
3. Influenza Surveillance Update
4. Investigation of Possible Histoplasmosis Among College "Spring Break"
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Rabies Vaccine Recalled
2. Multi-County Suspected Norwalk Virus Outbreak Investigation
3. Infectious Disease and Family Practice Physician Survey
4. American College of Physicians Recommendations on Appropriate Antibiotic Use 
5. Grand Rounds
6. Influenza Surveillance Update
7. Weekly Disease Table

1. Available ELISA Test NOT Recommended for Rabies Pre-Exposure Titer or Antemortem Evaluation
2. A Survey of Management of Diarrhea Cases
3. Influenza Surveillance Update
4. Weekly Disease Table

1. National Infant Immunization Week
2. Influenza Surveillance Update
3. Weekly Disease Table

1. Florida Hospital Based Early Warning System
2. Multi-County Suspected Norwalk Virus Outbreak Investigation Update
3. Grand Rounds 
4. Former Epi-Update Editor Located in New York City
5. Weekly Disease Table

1. Merlin System- User Update
2. Influenza Surveillance Update
3. Weekly Disease Table (Week 6)

1. How Useful Are Synthetic Estimates
2. Hepatitis Program Announces Clearinghouse
3. Public Health Grand Rounds
4. Influenza Surveillance Update
5. Weekly Disease Table (Week 5)

1. Merlin 2001
2. Merlin FAQ’s
3. Epidemiology and Prevention of Vaccine Preventable Diseases Satellite Teleconference
4. Florida Hepatitis and Liver Failure Prevention and Control Program
5. Influenza Surveillance Update
6. Weekly Disease Table (Week 4)

1. Hepatitis A Outbreak in Lake and Sumter Counties – Update 1/26/00
2. "Diagnosis and Management of Foodborne Illness - a Primer for Physicians" 
3. Hepatitis Program Update 
4. Influenza Surveillance Update
5. Epidemiology Grand Rounds for January 30, 2001
6. Weekly Disease Table (Week 3)

1. Viral Hepatitis Surveillance Report
2. Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surveillance Summary Update 
3. Grand Rounds for January 30, 2001
4. Weekly Disease Table (Week 2)

1. Current Status of Influenza Vaccine Supply
2. Enhanced Surveillance for Superbowl/Gasparilla Festival 
3. West Nile Virus Surveillance in Florida 
4. Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surveillance Summary
5. Update Epidemiology Teleconference Announcement
6. Epidemiology Grand Rounds for January 30, 2001
7. CDC Announces New Pertussis Guidelines
8. Weekly Disease Table

1. Announcing a Genetic Disorder Teleconference
2. Merlin Helpful Hints 
3. Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Surveillance Summary Update 
4. Weekly Disease Table