NPHL 2023 November News

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November 2023 Edition

Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving is approaching, the leaves are falling, and enteric pathogen season is moving into respiratory season.

NPHL would like to give thanks for the many good things that have happened in the last year.

We'd also like to thank all of you, our partners, for all the work you do every day.

Stay safe and have a very Happy Thanksgiving from everyone here at Nebraska Public Health Laboratory.

STATPack^TMLite

This past year, NPHL (Nebraska Public Health Lab) began to re-establish STATPackTM (now STATPackTM Lite) at some facilities in Nebraska. In the following year, NPHL would like to establish STATPackTM Lite’s footprint fully but with a new purpose.

Please click on the link to read more.

Seasonal Respiratory Diseases

If you missed the Nebraska's Influenza and Other Respiratory Diseases Surveillance Call 2023-2024, you can still watch the recording. Click here for the video. Click here for the PowerPoint.

For more information, go to Seasonal Respiratory Diseases (ne.gov ).

Group A Strep submissions

In December 2022, the CDC issued an alert via the Health Alert Network concerning a rise in invasive Group A Strep (iGAS) infections among pediatric patients. The CDC requested that laboratories submit isolates of iGAS for further analysis. The CDC has reversed this request, and it is no longer necessary for laboratories to submit iGAS isolates. We thank you for your isolate submissions to this point. Specific circumstances and outbreak investigations may warrant the submission of iGAS isolates at the request of DHHS.

Do you have an idea for the Newsletter? Do you have something you'd like to submit? Is there something you'd like presented at the Statewide Laboratory Advisory Meeting?

Email us at NPHLab@unmc.edu.

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September 2023 Lab Advisory Meeting

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