The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) National En­ vironmental Public Health Tracking Network (Tracking Network) expands con­ tent and functionality every year. This year, two new datasets were added: pesticide expo­ sure and 70 years of prospective climate data. These represent two important environmen­ tal public health concerns. In 2012, pesticides were the 10th leading ca...

Children younger than 5 are at greatest risk for unintentional poisonings. Children in low-income situations are particularly vulnerable for exposures to potential poisons. Focus groups were conducted at a Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program located in a large urban public hospital in New York City to gain information from low-income parents of young children about real and perceived bar...

BACKGROUND Warm sea surface temperatures (SSTs) are positively related to incidence of ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP). Increased severe storm frequency may create more habitat for ciguatoxic organisms. Although climate change could expand the endemic range of CFP, the relationship between CFP incidence and specific environmental conditions is unknown. OBJECTIVES We estimated associations betw...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this work was to provide recent national prevalence estimates of pediatric injury-prevention counseling by health care providers, to compare these latest findings with those from a similar survey conducted in 1994, and to ascertain the association between counseling and safety behaviors. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional, list-assisted random-digit-dial telephon...

OBJECTIVES Most pediatric poisonings have favorable outcomes and are managed in the home by poison control centers utilizing protocols that deem products or substances as nontoxic. We sought to evaluate the validity of protocols for nontoxics. METHODS This is retrospective study in which poison control center case records within a statewide poison control center system during calendar year 20...

Objective This paper describes analyses of health seeking behaviors from two surveillance datastreams: Poison Control Center (PCC) calls and Emergency Department (ED) visit records. These analyses were conducted in order to quantify behaviors following the development of symptoms after water contamination exposure and to understand the motivation, decision-making and timing behind healthcare se...

INTRODUCTION Poison Control Centers (PCCs) play an integral role in the preparation for and management of poison emergencies. Large-scale public health disasters, caused by both natural and human factors, may result in a drastic increase in the number of inquiries received and handled by PCCs in short periods of time. In order to plan and prepare for such public health emergencies, it is import...

Reports to U.S. poison control centers of possible nicotine toxicity tripled from 2012 to 2013.1,2 Although nicotine toxicity is not a new phenomenon, the emergence of electronic cigarettes (“e-cigarettes”) has spawned a market for highly concentrated liquid nicotine. This phenomenon has resulted in unprecedented access to potentially toxic doses of nicotine and other harmful compounds in the h...