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Evanston health staff brief committee on communicable disease surveillance and MDRO risks
Summary
Evanston's Health and Human Services staff presented a communicable disease report and an overview of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs); the committee accepted the report and asked clarifying questions about outbreak definitions and reporting thresholds.
Evanston Health and Human Services staff on Feb. 2 presented the department's communicable-disease surveillance work and warned about the public-health threat posed by multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). The committee voted to accept and place the report on file.
Elizabeth Lassiter, senior communicable disease surveillance specialist, described the city's role as a certified local health department, the flow of reportable-condition notifications from providers and laboratories, and how the department…
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