Departments of Emergency Medicine and Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (Rothman)
Emergency Medicine and Community Health, Brown Medical School, Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI (Merchant).
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA (Talan)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Moran, Pinner)
Editors' note: This article is part of a regular series on emerging infections from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the EMERGEncy ID NET, an emergency department–based and CDC-collaborative surveillance network. Important infectious disease public health information with relevance to emergency physicians is reported. The goal of this series is to advance knowledge about communicable diseases in emergency medicine and foster cooperation between the front line of clinical medicine and public health agencies.
