Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 12:35:13 -0500 From: "JOHN FANNING, CDC NAC" MORBIDITY AND MORTALITY WEEKLY REPORT Centers for Disease Control and Prevention December 23, 1994 Notice to Readers Combined Issues of MMWR A December 30, 1994, issue of MMWR will not be published. Following that, the next issue will be Volume 43, Numbers 51 and 52, dated January 6, 1995, and will include the figure and tables on notifiable diseases and deaths for the weeks ending December 24 and December 31, 1994. Notice to Readers Draft Recommendations for Prevention of Neonatal Group B Streptococcal Disease CDC is requesting public review of and comment on the draft document Prevention of Group B Streptococcal Disease: A Public Health Perspective. This document, which summarizes the literature and proposes prevention recommendations for neonatal group B streptococcal disease, has been published in the Federal Register*. Photocopies can be made at U.S. Government Depository Libraries and other public and academic libraries. Reprints and information for patients are available from CDC's Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, telephone (404) 488-4202 or fax (404) 488-4632. Comments must be received in writing by February 15, 1995, at CDC, Attention: GBS Recommendations Review Committee, Mailstop C-09, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30333; fax (404) 639-3970. *59 FR 64764~73. CDC Professional and Technical Staff Who Have Contributed to Editing, Producing, and Distributing Volume 43 of the MMWR Series Epidemiology Program Office Deborah A. Adams Roy C. Baron, M.D., M.P.H. Phillip C. Bourque Willard Cates, Jr., M.D., M.P.H. Julie T. Creasy Robert A. Fagan Sandra L. Ford Wanda T. Fortune Karen L. Foster, M.A. Richard A. Goodman, M.D., M.P.H. Patsy A. Hall Joy L. Herndon, M.S. Suzanne M. Hewitt, M.P.A. Morie M. Higgins Peter M. Jenkins David C. Johnson Minnie L. Johnson Denise Koo, M.D. Carol M. Knowles Arthur P. Liang, M.D., M.P.H. William R. MacKenzie, M.D. Nadine W. Martin Patricia A. McGee Ava W. Navin, M.A. Barbara Panter-Connah Darlene D. Rumph-Person Teresa F. Rutledge Myron G. Schultz, D.V.M., M.D. Ruth W. Slade Steven M. Teutsch, M.D., M.P.H. Stephen B. Thacker, M.D., M.Sc. T. Demetri Vacalis, Ph.D. Scott F. Wetterhall, M.D., M.P.H. Caran R. Wilbanks Rachel J. Wilson Lanette B. Wolcott Information Resources Management Office Jolene W. Altman National Center for Infectious Diseases Beverly J. Holland Stephen M. Ostroff, M.D. Office of the Deputy Director (HIV) T. Stephen Jones, M.D., M.P.H. Management Analysis and Services Office Carl T. Vining