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Provisional Information on Selected Notifiable Diseases in the United States for
Week Ended March 7, 1953

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Influenza

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL REPORTS

The following reports were received by the Influenza Information Center, N. I. H., and the National Office of Vital Statistics. Dr. E. H. Lennette, California State Department of Public Health, reports serologic diagnosis of 13 cases of influenza A and A-prime, having onsets between January 15 and February 9. New York State Department of Health Laboratories, reports the serologic diagnosis of influenza A-prime in 4 cases from Ray Brook, New York, 1 case from Westchester County, and 3 cases from Lake Placid having onsets in the middle of January.

Dr. C. C. Croft, Ohio State Department of Health, reports the serologic diagnoses of influenza A-prime in 9 cases from Apple Creek (Wayne County) and 4 cases from Bowling Green (Wood County).

Dr. S. B. Krumbiegel, Medical Director, Federal Bureau of Prisons, reports the occurrence of influenza during February in six penal and correctional institutions located in as many States. Infections usually were mild and as high as one-fourth of the in

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Deaths From Influenza and Pneumonia for 58 Selected Cities, by Weeks

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mates were reported to have been ill.

Dr. J. A. Carswell, Alaska Department of Health, reports the occurrence of influenza in Sitka, Anchorage, Nome, and Hotzebue during the month of February.

Dr. E. W. Seaforth, Lac du Flambeau Indian Reservation, Wisconsin, reports that in an outbreak on the reservation affecting 106 individuals, the attack rate was highest among persons below the age of 17 years. Seven cases of secondary bacterial pneumonia with no fatalities were observed.

Dr. Evelyn Rogers, District Health Officer, reports an outbreak of an influenza-like disease in Madison County, New York, late in February. In a school attended by 178 children, 73 were absent. Sore throat, cough, and fever were predominate symptoms.

Dr. H. M. Erickson, Oregon Health Officer, states that the reported incidence of influenza was lower in February than for the corresponding period of 1952, when influenza B was epidemic. Three of 6 paired specimens examined recently showed serologic incidence of influenza A-prime.

The number of deaths from influenza and pneumonia reported by 58 cities was 495 for the week ended February 28 as compared with 544 for the previous week. The numbers reported for these cities by geographic division, with figures for the previous week in parentheses, were: New England, 41 (41): Middle Atlantic, 155

(199); East North Central, 95 (111); West North Central, 41 (41); South Atlantic, 69 (54); East South Central, 47 (42); West South Central, 20 (19); Mountain, 6 (10); and Pacific, 21, (27).

Psittacosis

Dr. W. L. Halverson, Director, California Department of Public Health, reports 2 cases of psittacosis. The first case was in a 53-year-old white woman. She was exposed to a parakeet 2 to 3 weeks prior to her illness. Complement fixation tests for the first sample were negative, but for samples taken 7 days later, were positive for psittacosis antigens in titers of 1:64 and 1:128. The virus was isolated by mouse inoculation from liver and spleen of a parakeet to which the patient was exposed. The second case was in a 60-year-old custom's officer who was exposed for 5 hours to 1,427 confiscated contraband parakeets. These birds were being smuggled into the United States from Mexico. Two weeks after contact with the birds the officer developed anorexia, chills, fever, and malaise. He was treated with terramycin and the symptoms disappeared for 1 week. On reappearance of symptoms, he was treated with aureomycin. A chest X-ray showed frank infiltration in the right lung base. Blood specimens drawn on 2 different dates were reported positive for psittacosis in titer of 1:128.

Table 1. COMPARATIVE DATA FOR CASES OF SPECIFIED NOTIFIABLE DISEASES: UNITED STATES
(Numbers after diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948)

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Symbols.-1 dash [-]: no cases reported; asterisk [*]: disease stated not notifiable; parentheses, [) : data not included in total; 3 dashes [---]: data not available.

Table 2. CASES OF SPECIFIED DISEASES WITH COMPARATIVE DATA: UNITED STATES,
EACH DIVISION AND STATE FOR WEEK ENDED MARCH 7, 1953

(Numbers under diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948)

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Table 2. CASES OF SPECIFIED DISEASES WITH COMPARATIVE DATA: UNITED STATES,
EACH DIVISION AND STATE FOR WEEK ENDED MARCH 7, 1953-Continued
(Numbers under diseases are category numbers of the Sixth Revision of the International Lists, 1948)

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