Morbidity and mortality weekly report, Vol. 17, no. 41, Week ending October 12, 1968

Table 1. Cases of specified notifiable diseases: United States -- Table 2. Notifiable diseases of low frequency -- Table 3. Cases of specified notifiable diseases: United States for weeks ended October 12, 1968 and October 14, 1967 (41st week) -- Table 4. Deaths in 122 United States cities for week ended October 12, 1968Epidemiological notes and reports: Staphylococcal food poisoning - Ponce, Puerto Rico -- Transfusion malaria - Dallas, Texas -- Suspect scrub typhus - KansasSurveillance summary: Measles - United States -- Foodborne disease outbreaks -- Human listeriosis - United States, 1967Table 1. Attack rates for specific food items -- Table 2. Scrub typhus in U.S. troops in Vietnam, January 1966 - December 1967-- Table 3. Reported measles by geographic divisions, USA, epidemiologic years, 1964-65 through 1967-68 and percent change from preceding epidemiologic year -- Table 4. Etiology of confirmed and unconfirmed outbreaks of foodborne illness, January - June 1968 -- Table 5. Vehicles associated with foodborne illness of specific etiology, January - June 1968 -- Table 6. Sources of contamination of vehicles in foodborne illness by etiology, January - June 1968 -- Table 7. Places of acquisitisonof foodborne illness by etiology, January - June 1968 -- Table 8. Reported cases of human listeriosis by sex and age, United States, 1967 -- Table 9. Human listeriosis by infecting serotype, United States, 1967Figure 1. Cases of food poisoning, by incubation period, Ponce District Hospital, Puerto Rico, September 3, 1968 -- Figure 2. Reported measles by 4-week period, USA, epidemiologic years 1964-65 through 1967-68 - Reported measles by 4-week period, USA, epidemiologic years 1966-67 and 1967-68 -- Figure 3. Reported outbreaks of foodborne illness USA and Puerto Rico - January - June 196