905. The Role of CDC and Public Health Agencies in AFM Surveillance | Part I

SRNA hosted an Ask the Expert podcast, in collaboration with
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on "CDC and the Role
of Public Health in Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM)." We were joined
by Dr. Janell Routh of CDC, Dr. Ben Greenberg of UT Southwestern
Medical Center, and Emily Spence Davizon of the Colorado
Department of Public Health and Environment. The experts discuss
the process of how AFM cases are diagnosed, reported to public
health agencies, sent to CDC, and classified. They describe the
role of each organization/agency in reporting a case and the
stages each case goes through. The experts define important terms
such as surveillance, nationally notifiable, and mandatory
reporting. Finally, the experts reiterate the importance of
reporting cases for public health purposes, the need for
clinicians to be aware of reporting, and the ways in which the
case definition of AFM has evolved since 2014.