Because of the furlough of U.S. government employees, CDC has
restricted its activities to responses to emergencies and other
public
health matters of extreme urgency. This issue of MMWR contains two
reports
with immediate public health implications: one report summarizes
surveillance data indicating a steady increase in influenza
activity in the
United States from late October through mid-December 1995, and the
other
report updates the guidelines and recommendations regarding
childhood
vaccination for January-June 1996. Other reports of public health
importance and findings from the ongoing National Notifiable
Disease
Surveillance System for the weeks ending December 16, 23, and 30,
1995, and
January 5 will be published at a later date, and printed versions
of this
issue will be available to CDC's subscribers at a later date.
David Satcher, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, CDC
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