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Connecticut Epidemiologist Newsletter

The Connecticut Department of Public Health has produced the Connecticut Epidemiologist Newsletter since 1982 and has electronically published it since 1998. The newsletter provides public health officials, healthcare practitioners, and others with information on Connecticut's public health surveillance activities, acute disease outbreak investigations, and emerging diseases.

Issues for the current year are found below. To review past issues, please click here

Volume 44 (2024)


January / No. 1

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  • Reportable Diseases, Emergency Illnesses and Health Conditions, and Reportable Laboratory Findings Changes for 2024
  • List of Reportable Diseases, Emergency Illnesses and Health Conditions and Persons Required to Report—2024
  • List of Reportable Laboratory Findings and Persons Required to Report—2024
March / No. 2

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  • Special Edition: CT HPV-Impact Project
  • Trends in Precancerous Cervical Lesions, Connecticut, 2008–2022
  • HPV Vaccine Effectiveness by Age at Vaccination in Women,
    New Haven County, Connecticut, 2008–2019
  • Provider Awareness and Practices for HPV Vaccine Administration for Patients Ages 27–45 Years, Connecticut, 2023
May / No.3

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  • Impact of Air Quality on COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations, New Haven County, October 2022 – April 2023
July/ No. 4

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  • Reportable Diseases, Emergency Illnesses and Health Conditions, and Reportable Laboratory Findings July 2024 Update
  • List of Reportable Diseases, Emergency Illnesses and Health Conditions
  • List of Reportable Laboratory Findings
  • Infectious Diseases Section Annual Statistics, 2021 and 2022
  • Persons Required to Report Significant Findings 
September/ No. 5

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  • When it Rains it Pours: Rainfall and Legionnaires’ Disease Risk in Connecticut, 2013–2022
  • Infectious Diseases Section Annual Statistics, 2023
November/ No. 6

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  • A Review of Botulism Cases in Connecticut, January 2014–October 2024
  • A Connecticut Outbreak of Listeriosis – An Interstate Investigation
 

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