{"id":10540,"date":"2025-10-15T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:49:48","slug":"want-to-call-cdc-to-report-a-possible-disease-outbreak-fuhgeddaboutit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/15\/want-to-call-cdc-to-report-a-possible-disease-outbreak-fuhgeddaboutit\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Call CDC to Report a Possible Disease Outbreak? Fuhgeddaboutit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/publichealthpolicy\/washington-watch\/117943?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2025-10-14&amp;mh=07f73d99b2b546c079b0b5a2312d87b1&amp;zdee=gAAAAABm4uVVa0noffRIJqPd2rsKKgBm5ZURWXfuJljHxkA5SxaiDrFhpdNSLVuatrcndghIUJbdB8i3tZ00Sf5MYAfngC1RuyQP-n6FrYFzvROxn-4_blA%3D&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%20-%20Randomized%202025-10-14&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPage Today<\/a> Thinking of calling CDC to report a potential disease outbreak? Don&#8217;t bother; no one will answer, a former CDC employee said Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s an infection that is being seen in the hospital in four different patients, and the infection control nurse calls [the CDC] &#8230; You are working with the physicians, the nurses, the schools, the restaurants, to try and sort through, &#8216;What is going on and what can we do?'&#8221; said Karen Remley, MD, MPH, former director of the CDC&#8217;s National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities. &#8220;Sometimes that help might be, &#8216;We&#8217;re going to send some people to you; we&#8217;re going to give you more boots on the ground to help you do this.&#8217; Sometimes that might be talking to somebody who&#8217;s one of the only world experts on a specific type of infection or a specific type of exposure. But [now] there&#8217;s nobody to answer the phone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"vlW G\">vlW G<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPage Today Thinking of calling CDC to report a potential disease outbreak? Don&#8217;t bother; no one will answer, a former CDC employee said Tuesday. &#8220;If it&#8217;s an infection that is being seen in the hospital in four different patients, and the infection control nurse calls [the CDC] &#8230; You are working with the physicians, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-headlines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10541,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10540\/revisions\/10541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}