Wisconsin Epi Express
The Wisconsin Epi Express (WEE) is a periodic update on communicable
disease issues prepared by the Wisconsin Division of Public Health,
Bureau of Communicable Diseases and Emergency Response. The target audience are members of the
public health surveillance system. It is distributed electronically and
contains short status reports on outbreaks and updates on progress in
controlling communicable diseases.
Listed below, for each issue, are the subjects contained within that
edition. For the full publication, open the linked PDF file.
2012 | 2011
| 2008 | 2007
| 2006 | 2005 |
2004 | 2003 | 2002
| 2001
2013
Wisconsin Epi
Express February-2013 (PDF, 307 KB)
1. Norovirus update
2. False-positive hepatitis A test results
3. Wisconsin Influenza update
4. Updated hepatitis B and C case definitions
5. Meetings, trainings and important dates
2012
Wisconsin Epi
Express 11-20-2012 (PDF, 428 KB)
1. Strep throat outbreaks in schools
2. Optimal sampling for Legionellosis
3. News: National fungal meningitis outbreak, publication
4. Meetings, trainings and important dates
Wisconsin Epi
Express 08-31-2012 (PDF, 95 KB)
1. Non-polio enteroviral illnesses
2. Response for domestic animals potentially exposed to rabies
3. Travel-associated illnesses: Dengue
4. World Rabies Day
5. Meeting announcements and training opportunities
Wisconsin Epi
Express 06-28-2012 (PDF, 134 KB)
1. Babesiosis in Wisconsin, 2007-2011
2. Redesigned Communicable Diseases website
3. Modified Lyme disease reporting requirements
4. Salmonella Bareilly outbreak summary
5. Meeting announcements and training opportunities
Wisconsin Epi
Express 04-17-2012 (PDF, 274 KB)
1. Invasive Haemophilus influenzae summary, 2002-2011
2. 2012 Vector-borne season
3. Meeting announcements and training opportunities
Wisconsin Epi
Express 02-16-2012 (PDF, 239 KB)
1. Novel Influenza case and ILI activity in Wisconsin
2. Wisconsin Division of Public Health's Surveillance and Outbreak
Support (SOS) Team
3. Legionnaires' Disease Outbreak Linked to Hospital's Decorative
Fountain
4. Meeting announcements and training opportunities
2011
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-20-2011 (PDF, 70 KB)
1. World Meningitis Day - April 24, 2011
2. Fee-exempt Rabies Testing Policy Should Not Delay Submissions
3. Summary of invasive meningococcal disease, Wisconsin, 1996-2010, and
updated ACIP recommendations for meningococcal conjugate vaccines
Wisconsin
Epi Express 01-14-2011 (PDF, 106 KB)
1. Updated protocols for invasive meningococcal disease and
Haemophilus influenzae infection
2. Norovirus outbreaks in long-term care facilities
2008
Wisconsin
Epi Express 01-15-2008 (PDF, 44 KB)
1. CDC's HPV education and training products
2. Past Issues of the Wisconsin Epi Express Now Available Online
3. Dr. Peter Shult of the State Lab Testifies before Congress
4. MRSA Resources Available on the Web
5. New BCDP Staff Contact and Disease Specialty Lists Available
6. Wisconsin State Public Health Laws on the Web
7. AIDS/HIV Program piloting multi-jurisdiction HIV partner counseling
and referral service
8. New APIC recommendations on the use of hepatitis A vaccine for
postexposure prophylaxis
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2007
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-23-2007 (PDF, 273 KB)
1. First Reported Case of Vancomycin Intermediate Staphylococcus
aureus in Wisconsin
2. Summer 2007 WISCONSIN AIDS/HIV UPDATE Posted on Web
3. Rapid HIV Testing Technology Update
4. Babesiosis Cases Increasing in Wisconsin
5. Wisconsin Supreme Courts rules in favor of confinement of TB patients
for treatment
6. Enterovirus Activity in Wisconsin, 2007
7. Wisconsin Electronic Disease Surveillance System (WEDSS) Update
8. Lincoln County Blastomycosis Outbreak: January-April 2006
Wisconsin
Epi Express 06-14-2007 (PDF, 42 KB)
1. Refugee numbers declining
2. Health Works: About the Norovirus
3. Norovirus Surveillance in Wisconsin 2002-2006
4. Cumulative Wisconsin HIV Case Surveillance Data Posted on Web
5. Spring 2007 WISCONSIN AIDS/HIV UPDATE Posted on Web
6. State Hygiene Lab recognized for outstanding response to
foodborne disease outbreaks
7. Updated Fee Exempt Laboratory Testing Guidelines Available
8. Please Visit the Website of the Wisconsin Antibiotic Resistance
Network (WARN)
9. CDC to Release Data on Increasing Gonorrhea Drug Resistance
and New National Treatment Recommendations
10. National HIV Testing Day 2007 – June 27
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2006
Wisconsin
Epi Express 09-26-2006 (PDF, 51 KB)
1. TB Education and Training Resources
2. Report from the TB Educational Training Network (TB-ETN) Conference
3. Tubes with sodium heparin (“BD sodium heparin tubes”) and
QuantiFERON®-TB Gold products
4. Changes in TB and Refugee Health Operations and Staffing
5. Errata for TB Guideline
6. Supreme Court to Hear Public Health Confinement Case
7. Cluster of allergic reactions following Tubersol® administration
8. New Guidelines for Pediatric Use of Rotavirus Vaccine
9. Updated Guidelines on Diagnosis, Treatment of Lyme Disease
10. CDC publishes revised recommendations for HIV testing in health care
settings
11. Survey of Employee Influenza Vaccination Rates and Policies in
Wisconsin Hospitals and Nursing Homes
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-23-2006 (PDF, 41 KB)
1. Weekend Rabies Testing
2. Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) Training Highlights
3. Revised STD Treatment Guidelines Available Online
4. Recording and Reporting Race and Ethnicity
5. Summer 2006 Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Update posted on the web
6. amfAR Issue Brief Focuses on HIV Prevention for Men Who Have Sex with
Men
7. Changes in Communicable Disease Reporting Enacted in 2005 Wisconsin
Act 198
Wisconsin
Epi Express 06-23-2006 (PDF, 72 KB)
1. Statewide Variance Granted to use QuantiFERON TB Gold for TB
Screening
2. Presence of Deer Ticks in Some State Parks
3. Surveillance for Influenza and Other Viruses in Wisconsin
4. Mumps outbreak affecting adolescents and young adults in Austria,
2006
5. Recent norovirus outbreaks on river and seagoing cruise ships in
Europe
6. Region V Infertility Prevention Project (RVIPP) Advisory Committee
Meeting to be held in Madison, Wisconsin- June 28-29, 2006
Wisconsin
Epi Express 03-22-2006 (PDF, 206
KB)
1. Influenza Vaccination of Health-Care Personnel
2. The Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Update is now an electronic publication
3. Cumulative Wisconsin HIV case surveillance data posted on the web
4. Health Care Facilities Make the "80% Club"
5. Wisconsin to Participate In Menactra® Effectiveness Study
6. 2006 Communicable Diseases Spring Seminars
Wisconsin
Epi Express 03-13-2006 (PDF, 206
KB)
1. World TB Day - March 24
2. Updates to the TB Incentive program
3. Wisconsin Reports Highest Rate of "military" TB
4. Protocol Changes for Fee-Exempt Liver function testing at WSLH
5. Upcoming TB training opportunities
6. Update on TB Blood testing: QuantiFERON-TB Gold
7. Wisconsin TB data for 2005 now available
8. The WSLH Mycobacteriology Laboratory
Wisconsin
Epi Express 01-13-2006 (PDF, 42
KB)
1. Be On the Alert for Dengue in Travelers Returning From Warm
Climates
2. Updated Guidelines on Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV
3. Revised Medicaid Guide for Tuberculosis
4. CDC Guidelines - Infection Control Measures for Preventing and
Controlling Influenza Transmission in Long-Term Care Facilities
5. Resources for Clinicians and Public Health Professionals Working with
Meth Users
6. Recommendations Regarding Avian Influenza for Travelers to Southeast
Asia
7. Communicable Diseases Spring Seminars 2006 - Save the Date
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2005
Wisconsin
Epi Express 03-09-2005 (PDF, 63
KB)
1. Improved TB Blood Test Receives FDA Approval
2. Wisconsin Medicaid Now Reimburses for Laboratory Procedure Code 0010T
for Tuberculosis Blood Test
3. CDC issues updated guidelines on use of antiretroviral drugs
following non-occupational exposure to HIV
4. Lymphogranuloma venereum (LGV) Surveillance
5. Increase in reported cases of HIV infection in Wisconsin
6. Bureau of Communicable Diseases and Preparedness (BCDP) Spring
Seminars 2005
Wisconsin
Epi Express 01-27-2005 (PDF, 44 KB)
1. Food and Drug Administration Approval of HIV Rapid Tests
2. The Respiratory Virus Season
3. Free Web Course on Cross-Cultural Communication
4. Why It Is Important to Confirm Cryptosporidium Antigen Rapid
Assay Tests
5. Funds Restored for 2005 TB Incentive Program
6. Infectious Disease Journal Reports on Wisconsin TB Outbreak
7. Communicable Diseases Seminars – Hold the Dates
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2004
Wisconsin
Epi Express 12-13-04 (PDF, 42 KB)
1. End of Arboviral Testing for 2004 season
2. Ordering Viral Cultures from the Wisconsin State Laboratory of
Hygiene
3. Hepatitis C Treatment research study underway in Wisconsin
4. 2005 Regional communicable Diseases Seminars scheduled
5. Governor announces relaxation of restrictions on Flue Vaccine
6. Proposed reporting for Severe Adverse Events associated with LTBI
treatment
7. TB Infection Control Guidelines - draft available for public comment
8. President Signs Omnibus Appropriations Bill with Fit-Testing
provision
Wisconsin
Epi Express 09-28-04 (PDF, 22 KB)
1. Compendium of measures to Prevent Disease and Injury associated
with animals in public settings, 2004
2. EIS Officer Andie New begins training with BCDP
3. Tuberculosis investigations in the Workplace
4. Enhanced Hepatitis C Surveillance Project - Thanks and a Reminder
5. Staff Change in HBC and HCV programs
Wisconsin
Epi Express 09-03-04 (PDF, 22 KB)
1. State swards funds for local Tuberculosis programs
2. Educating providers about latent TB infections
3. TB control in County jails
4. Enteric pathogen cases linked to Canadian petting zoos prompt
awareness
5. DHHS releases draft national Pandemic Influenza Response and
Preparedness plan for comment
6. DPH hold press conference on Pertussis
7. Six month report of Communicable Diseases available
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-09-04 (PDF, 36 KB)
1. Northern WI AHEC offers medical interpreter training program in
Wausau
2. ACIP releases 2004 Guidelines on Prevention and Control of
Influenza
3. Infection Control - Guidelines for Avian Influenza
4. Sexual transmission of Hepatitis C virus infection
5. Announcing Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance system maps
Wisconsin
Epi Express 07-09-04 (PDF, 102 KB)
1. Additions to the DHFS Hepatitis C Web Site
2. Extra Hepatitis resources for Clinicians packet available
3. Rabies Vaccine Shortage
4. General Industry Respiratory Protection Standard Applies to Workers
Exposed to TB
5. Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) Among Children in Daycare Centers
6. Communicable Diseases Web Page Launched
7. Division of Public Health Launches Refugee Health Web pages
8. Surveillance for Avian Influenza Among Hmong Refugees
Wisconsin
Epi Express 06-21-04 (PDF, 30 KB)
1. National TB Testing Day: June 27, 2004
2. STD Communications Database Available Online
3. Wisconsin Receives National Recognition for Tuberculosis Laboratory
Activities
4. Shield Outbreak in Milwaukee, WI 06/14/04
5. FOCUS on Field Epidemiology is useful Internet site
6. EIS Officer Mark Sotir Completes Training with BCD
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-28-04 (PDF, 30 KB)
1. Increased Pertussis Reported in Southeast Wisconsin
2. Shigella Outbreak in Wisconsin
3. CDC Implements New Tiered Travel Health Guidance System
4. Tuberculosis Screening Requirements
5. Download TB Treatment Information to Your PDA
6. Enhanced Hepatitis C Surveillance Project Starts June 1, 2004
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-17-04 (PDF, 26 KB)
1. Online Training on HIV Risk Assessment in Women
2. CDC Dear Colleague Letter Recommends STD Prevention Services for MSM
3. Fluoroquinolone Resistant N. gonorrhoeae
4. CDC Healthy Pets Health People Website
5. Falsely Positive Rapid Assay Tests for Cryptosporidium Antigen,
Wisconsin 2003-2004
6. Bureau of Communicable Diseases and Preparedness Phone List
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-29-04 (PDF, 197 KB)
1. Changes in TB Medication Program
2. Medical Examinations for Internationally Adopted Children
3. Blastomycosis in Wisconsin: A Severe Systemic Fungal Infection in Man
and Animals and an Environmental Enigma
4. Northwest Center for Public Health Practice Announces 2004 Summer
Public Health
5. 2003 Wisconsin Act 186 Relating to Public Health Emergencies is
Enacted
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-12-04
(PDF, 76 KB)
1. Norovirus: Characteristics, Recent Wisconsin Trends, and Specimen
Collection
2. Arrival of Hmong Refugees Anticipated
3. Wisconsin Division of Health Guidelines: Invasive Meningococcal
Disease
4. Foodborne Illness Primer Announced at National Press Club
5. The Tale of the Giant African Snail (Achatina fulica)
Wisconsin
Epi Express 03-29-04 (PDF, 40 KB)
1. Surveillance for Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli (STEC),
Wisconsin, 2002-2003
2. Upcoming Conference on Emerging Infectious Disease Issues in
Long-Term Care
3. CDC Releases Guide and Model Protocol on HIV Rapid Testing in Labor
and Delivery
4. Compensation for Injured Smallpox Vaccines
5. Advance Notice of a Short-Term Enhanced Hepatitis C Surveillance
Project
6. Watch for Primary Care Provider Hepatitis Mailing
Wisconsin
Epi Express 03-18-04 (PDF, 27 KB)
1. School HIV/AIDS Policy Tool Kit
2. Hospital Preparedness Seminars: Future Directions for Isolation and
Decontamination
3. BCD Spring Seminars 2004
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2003
Wisconsin
Epi Express 12-04-03 (PDF, 27 KB)
1. Planes, trains, and tuberculosis
2. Tuberculosis in the college setting
3. Influenza talking points (health departments)
4. Pertussis outbreak in Fond du Lac County
5. Food and waterborne outbreak investigation team strikes again
6. Possible cases of influenza among vaccinated Wisconsin residents
7. Reminder: Communicable disease reporting for 2003
Wisconsin
Epi Express 11-05-03 (PDF, 34 KB)
1. Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene celebrates 100th
anniversary
2. Four important state public health plan web pages
3. Hepatitis C guidelines for local health departments
4. Wisconsin local health department follow-up of persons with hepatitis
C virus infection
5. Interpreting hepatitis C virus test results
6. Hepatitis conference materials on interpreting hepatitis test results
Wisconsin
Epi Express 10-07-03 (PDF, 31 KB)
1. TB elimination by 2010?
2. HIPAA and TB medications
3. Tips to ease HIPAA jitters
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-14-03 (PDF, 42 KB)
1. Bioterrorism preparedness disease surveillance update
2. Teachers invited to compete for awards in young epidemiology scholars
program
3. Important new HIV prevention resources published by the CDC
4. Advancing HIV prevention: interim technical guidance for selected
interventions
5. Statewide SARS teleconference
6. Revised recommendations against the use of Rifampin and pyrazinamide
for latent tuberculosis infection
Wisconsin
Epi Express 06-12-03 (PDF, 107 KB)
1. Lyme disease in Wisconsin, 1997-2002
2. Wisconsin hepatitis C materials
3. CDC guidance documents on monkeypox
4. HIPAA privacy rule and public health
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-01-03 (PDF, 21
KB)
1. HIPAA privacy rule and public health
2. Incidence and fatality from meningococcal disease, Wisconsin
1993-2002
3. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli non-0157A:H7 (STEC)
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-08-03 (PDF, 43 KB)
1. Alter about inadvertent use of Bicillin C-R for treatment of
syphilis
2. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
3. State Laboratory of Hygiene Rabies Testing Policy
4. Limited multi-dose use from vials of immune globulin (IG)
5. Tuberculosis investigation in Milwaukee area
6. Smallpox vaccination clinic activity
7. Hepatitis C virus infection in Wisconsin, 1997-2002: a review of case
surveillance data
8. Important CDC satellite telecast/webcast on HIV rapid testing
9. Upcoming Wisconsin hepatitis C conference -- save the date!
Wisconsin
Epi Express 02-10-03 (PDF, 37
KB)
1. Wisconsin assists with Minnesota TB investigation
2. Influenza-like illness activity
3. Cryptosporidium antigen tests
4. The communicable disease wall chart
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2002
Wisconsin
Epi Express 12-20-02 (PDF, 27 KB)
1. Rationale and Criteria Required for Norwalk Virus Testing
A. Outbreak of “Norwalk-Like Viruses” in Alaska
B. Change in Nomenclature of “Norwalk-Like
Viruses”
2. Web-based CDC Smallpox Resource Kit
3. Increase in MSM Syphilis in the Southeast Region
4. The Use of Raw Meat for Pet Diets
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-28-02 (PDF, 45 KB)
1. New staff join the Bureau of Communicable Diseases
2. Schedule TB Grand Rounds for 2003
3. Communicable Disease Wall Charts Available
4. Treating active TB just got easier
5. False Positive Cryptosporidium Tests
6. Influenza and respiratory virus surveillance
7. CDC Alert - Recall of Gonorrhea Laboratory Assay
8. HIV Prevention RFPs Released
9. AIDS/HIV Fall Conference Program Brochure Available
10. Sample HIV Testing Consent Forms on AIDS/HIV Program Website
Wisconsin
Epi Express 07-23-02 (PDF, 30 KB)
1. TB Blood Test Coming Soon
2. Three Recent Foodborne Illness Outbreaks
3. Live. and Let Live. Community Education Guide Available
4. Mark Your Calendars for the Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Program Fall
Conference
5. Wisconsin Hospital Bioterrorism Preparedness Advisory Committee
(WHBPAC) Meets
6. Regional Bioterrorism Planning Teams
7. OSHA Bloodborne Pathogen Fact Sheets
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-10-02 (PDF, 33 KB)
1. Changes in Wisconsin Tuberculosis Laws
2. Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance
3. Salmonella Cluster in Jefferson County
4. Computer-Based, Distance Ed Course on Immigrant Health Issues, Fall
2002
5. TB Contact Investigation Guideline Update
6. Resumption of Statewide Enhanced Arbovirus Surveillance
7. Recent Internet Sites of Interest
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2001
Wisconsin
Epi Express 09-04-01 (PDF, 24 KB)
1. TB Program personnel changes
2. Answers To last issue’s quiz
(All Creatures Great and Small ….. Will Bite
Someone Eventually)
3. New TB educational materials for the Hmong
4. Hepatitis C surveillance strategy: improving completeness of
reporting
5. ALERT-- Revised recommendations for latent
Wisconsin
Epi Express 08-02-01 (PDF, 20 KB)
1. ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL ….. WILL BITE SOMEONE EVENTUALLY
2. Quarterly HIV/AIDS surveillance report posted on Internet
3. Roadside carcass disposal
4. CDC publishes updated guidelines for the management of occupational
exposures to HBV, HCV, and HIV and recommendations for post-exposure
prophylaxis
5. CDC issues guidance regarding prevention messages on latex condoms
and sexually transmitted diseases
6. CDC launches Global AIDS Program web site
7. Availability of Td Vaccine
Wisconsin
Epi Express 06-18-01 (PDF, 20 KB)
1. Control measures for meningococcal disease outbreaks
2. Delayed reporting of case of botulism
3. National HIV adult and adolescent and perinatal guidelines updated
4. Reminder About Submitting 4151 Communicable Disease Report Forms for
Newly Reportable Diseases
5. TB Information Guide CD-ROM
6. “…three are called, but only two are chosen…”
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-14-01 (PDF, 19 KB)
1. Jeannie Druckenmiller receives recognition
2. Guidelines for Hepatitis C Testing
3. New website on hepatitis sponsored by the Immunization Action
Coalition
4. Wisconsin Division of Public Health launching HIV media campaign
5. Reporting Hepatitis Associated With Treatment for Latent TB Infection
Wisconsin
Epi Express 05-01-01 (PDF, 22 KB)
1. Calicivirus Outbreak in a Community-Based Residential Facility
(CBRF)
2. Possible Shortage of Tubersol.
3. Important Internet-Based Information Resources on Hepatitis C
4. Safer Needles: Are They "Infectious Waste"?
5. “AIDS in the Heartland” Midwest Regional HIV/AIDS Conference
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-22-01 (PDF, 47 KB)
1. Wisconsin Tuberculosis Cases Up In 2004
2. TB Genotyping Excludes Transmission in Clinic Waiting Room
3. Zoonotic Disease Resources
4. Tick Surveys – Wisconsin, 2004
5. Hepatitis C Virus Infection in Wisconsin: Results of an Enhanced HCV
Surveillance Project
6. Fact Sheets Available on Managing the Side Effects of Hepatitis C
Treatment
Wisconsin
Epi Express 04-09-01 (PDF, 24 KB)
1. State TB web site enlarged and improved
2. TB Program tools for local policy and procedure development
3. Wisconsin HIV pediatric medical care guide published on the Internet
4. Department of Health and Family Services announces intent to release
HIV prevention request for proposals
5. Fact sheet on surveillance of health care workers with HIV/AIDS
6. New CDC hepatitis and HIV prevention guidelines to be released by CDC
7. Information on documentation and medical management of significant
exposures on website of Wisconsin AIDS/HIV Program
8. Internet-based information resources on medical and infectious waste
from the Department of Natural Resources Internet website
Contacts
Wisconsin
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