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Volume 2003-1
Prepared by Kathryn Dail, Nurse Epidemiologist
Assisted by Ann Laible and Denise Lewis of the OEIS Unit,
General Communicable Disease Control Branch
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Background
The General Communicable Disease Control Branch (GCDC)
receives its statutory authority under Article 6 of Chapter 130A of
the N.C. General Statutes. This statute contains most, but not all,
of the communicable disease laws. The laws specify who is re-
quired to report. The rules for reporting communicable disease
are contained in 15A NCAC 19A .0100. These rules include, in
rule .0101, a list of reportable diseases, conditions, and positive lab
results that must be reported. A link to these rules may be found
on the DPH website at http://www.epi.state.nc.us/epi/gcdc.html.
The Good News
In 2002, the Office of Epidemiologic Investigation and Surveil-
lance (OEIS) in GCDC processed in a record number of outbreak
investigations and reports of disease under surveillance by GCDC
(excluding STD) more than any year since 1987, wh