MMWR Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
Announcement Erratum: Vol. 59, No. RR-8
In the MMWR Recommendations and Reports
Interactive CDC DengueMap Available “Prevention and Control of Influenza with Vaccines:
Online Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on
CDC, in collaboration with HealthMap, has cre- Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2010,” on page 18,
ated a new online tool for displaying global dengue the first two sentences under the heading “Pregnant
activity. The interactive DengueMap shows areas Women and Neonates” should read, “FDA has classi-
where CDC considers dengue to be endemic and sites fied FluLaval, Fluarix (GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals),
of recent, location-specific reports of disease. Unlike and Agriflu (Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
the CDC map that is compiled every 2 years for the Limited) influenza vaccines as “Pregnancy Category
CDC Travelers’ Health Yellow Book to character- B” medications, indicating that animal reproduction
ize general dengue risk based on traditional public studies have not demonstrated a fetal risk, but there
health data sources, HealthMap reports are updated are no controlled studies in pregnant women; all
hourly and include both professional sources, such as other influenza vaccines are classified as “Pregnancy
the World Health Organization and ProMED-mail, Category C” medications, indicating that adequate
and informal sources such as local media reports. animal reproduction studies have not been conducted.
Combined, these data provide a more dynamic and Available data do not indicate that any influenza
immediate picture of where transmission of dengue vaccine causes fetal harm when administered to a
viruses might occur and where disease is actually pregnant woman, and any of the approved TIV
occurring. DengueMap is available at http://health- formulations may be used for vaccinating pregnant
map.org/dengue and http://www.cdc.gov/dengue. women.”
Additional information regarding HealthMap is
available at http://healthmap.org.
Errata: Vol. 59, No. 30
In the report, “Launching a National Surveillance
System After an Earthquake — H