This Week in MMWR - Vol. 69, March 6, 2020

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Reports on Lung Cancer Screening, Legionnaires’ Disease, HIV Preexposure Prophylaxis, and more.

March 6, 2020

WEEKLY REPORT

	Deaths from Fall-Related Traumatic Brain Injury — United States, 2008–2017 The national age-adjusted rate of fall-related TBI deaths increased by 17% from 2008 to 2017; rates increased significantly in 29 states and among nearly all age groups, most notably persons living in noncore nonmetropolitan counties and those aged ≥75 years.

• Brain Injury Awareness Month — 2020
• Student-Reported School Safety Perceptions, Connectedness, and Absenteeism Following a Multiple-Fatality School Shooting — Broward County, Florida, February 14–21, 2018
• E-cigarette, or Vaping, Product Use–Associated Lung Injury Among Clusters of Patients Reporting Shared Product Use — Wisconsin, 2019
• Intervention To Stop Transmission of Imported Pneumonic Plague — Uganda, 2019
• Active Monitoring of Persons Exposed to Patients with Confirmed COVID-19 — United States, January–February 2020
• Notes from the Field: Monkey Bite in a Public Park and Possible Exposure to Herpes B Virus — Thailand, 2018

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QUICKSTATS

QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Suicide Rates, by Sex and Three Most Common Methods — United States, 2000–2018

CONTINUING EDUCATION

 

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