Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

Discipline	Epidemiology
Language	English
Edited by	Charlotte Kent
Publication details
Former name(s)	Morbidity and Mortality; Weekly Mortality Index; Weekly Health Index
History	1930–present
Publisher	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (United States)
Frequency	Weekly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0149-2195 (print) 1545-861X (web)
JSTOR	01492195
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The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) is a weekly epidemiological digest for the United States published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It was originally established as Weekly Health Index in 1930, changing its title to Weekly Mortality Index in 1941 and Morbidity and Mortality in 1952. It acquired its current name in 1976. It is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. Material published in the report is in the public domain and may be reprinted without permission.^[1] As of 2019^[update], the journal's editor-in-chief is Charlotte Kent.^[2]

As noted in the sequel, some single reports have evoked media interest also outside health and medical contexts. However, many reports are parts of series, providing consistent long-term statistics, and also indicating trend changes. Such a standing report section is the "Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables", which reports deaths by disease and state, and city for city, for 122 large cities. As another example, there are more than a hundred items about West Nile virus infections since the 1999 outbreak of the disease in the US. In 2001–2005, there were weekly updates of the WNV situation, during the warm seasons.^[3]