CDC/MMWR Watch [to 12 July 2014]

CDC/MMWR Watch [to 12 July 2014]
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_wk.html

:: CDC Press Conference on laboratory quality and safety after recent lab incidents – Transcript
July 11, 2014

:: CDC Director to highlight steps being taken to improve laboratory quality and safety after recent lab incidents – Media Advisory
July 11, 2014

:: CDC Media Statement on Newly Discovered Smallpox Specimens – Media Statement
7/8/2014
MMWR – July 11, 2014 / Vol. 63 / No. 27
:: Interim CDC Guidance for Polio Vaccination for Travel to and from Countries Affected by Wild Poliovirus
Excerpt
…This report provides an update on CDC policy for polio vaccination of travelers for health protection. It also provides additional interim guidance for physicians whose U.S. resident patients will travel to or reside in affected countries for >4 weeks, to ensure those patients will have evidence of administration of polio vaccine (IPV or OPV) within 12 months of travel that might be required when they depart from countries with active poliovirus transmission. This interim guidance is to ensure compliance with WHO International Health Regulations temporary recommendations for countries designated as “polio-infected” to reduce the risk for exportation of WPV from those countries…