Medical epidemiologist William Atkinson, MD, MPH, and Melinda Wharton, MD, chief of the Child Vaccine-Preventable Disease Branch, both from CDC's National Immunization Program, will present the program. It will provide guidelines for vaccine-preventable disease surveillance, case investigation, and outbreak control. The course is designed for nurses, physicians, epidemiologists, sanitarians, infection control practitioners, disease reporters, and others. Continuing education credit will be offered. The manual is recommended for the course but not required.
All amounts are approximate.
Foreign-language translations of this document are not currently available. Preliminary laboratory results identified wild type 1 poliovirus among eight cases. The government has initiated a mass vaccination campaign to vaccinate every child aged 0-59 months, and investigations are underway to determine the circumstances that led to the outbreak, whether the outbreak has spread to neighboring countries of West Africa, and whether additional interventions are needed.