In 1878, congress authorized the US Marine Hospital Service, the precursor to the Public Health Service, to collect morbidity reports on cholera, smallpox, plague, and yellow fever from US consuls overseas. For the most part, these diseases have been eradicated, but the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System remains in place.
Using the CDC Morbidity and Mortality Summary of notifiable infectious diseases ( https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/mmwr_nd/ Links to an external site. ), select three diseases and investigate and analyze the number of cases reported in three consecutive years. Explain the reason these diseases are included on the surveillance list, and then analyze the most recent three years of data addressing trends in the statistics for all three diseases.
