Diseases on the rise: What to watch out for - source the news star

Flu isn’t the only illness you’ll want to have on your radar this year.
A new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
summarizes data on all infectious and non-infectious diseases reported
to health departments across the country, allowing for a “side by side
comparison,” said Dr. Robert Amler,
dean of the School of Health Sciences and Practice at New York Medical
College. Data in the summary is from 2013, the most recent year
available.
“For the first time we’re going to see, in the same
document, what’s happening with measles and what’s also happening with
blood lead levels in adults,” said Amler, whose career includes a nearly
25-year stint with the CDC. “And we’re going to see what’s happening
with Lyme disease at the same time as we’re counting outbreaks of
food-borne illness, which can be just as problematic.”

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Diseases on the rise: What to watch out for