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. 2013 Nov 28;369(22):2152-8.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMms1215400.

Contagious diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present

Willem G van Panhuis  1 , John Grefenstette, Su Yon Jung, Nian Shong Chok, Anne Cross, Heather Eng, Bruce Y Lee, Vladimir Zadorozhny, Shawn Brown, Derek Cummings, Donald S Burke
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Contagious diseases in the United States from 1888 to the present

Willem G van Panhuis et al. N Engl J Med. .
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Figure 1
Figure 1
Availability of Weekly Counts of Cases of Reported Diseases from Any U.S. Location, 1888–2011. Each concentric circle represents a decade, starting with 1888 in the center. No single disease was reported weekly throughout the entire period, and for many diseases, the type of reports changed over time, as represented by different colors: red represents mortality reports and black, green, blue, and orange represent reporting of cases for 1, 2, 3, or more than 3 disease subcategories, respectively.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Snapshots of Disease Elimination in the United States. Weekly incidence rates per 100,000 population are displayed for the entire country (top of each panel) and per state (for all diseases except diphtheria) or city (for diphtheria) grouped by US epidemiological region in the following order: region 1= Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont; 2= New Jersey, New York; 3= Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia; 4= Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee; 5= Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin; 6= Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas; 7= Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska; 8= Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Wyoming; 9= Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada; 10= Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington. The year of vaccine licensure is indicated by a vertical red line, and the total number of cases displayed is listed for each disease. The smallpox vaccine was introduced in the United States around 1800. Weekly reports for pertussis were unavailable from 1955 to 1974 (white space), and an approximate year of vaccine licensure was used (dashed line). NA denotes data not available (i.e. not included in weekly reports).
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