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• Read more about Understanding Air Quality: How the MaineTracking Network Helps Keep You Informed

Air quality plays a crucial role in our overall health. Understanding how air pollution affects us can help individuals and communities make informed decisions. The MaineTracking Network is unique in that it combines and standardizes data from multiple programs, allowing us to see the connections between environmental factors and health.

New this week is a suite of interactive maps and dashboards including:

• Read more about Now Available - New Public Water Supply Data

Access to clean drinking water is important for every Mainer. The Maine CDC Drinking Water Program is dedicated to ensuring the water you receive from public water systems is safe. To better understand the quality of the water provided by public water systems, the MaineTracking Network released a set of interactive dashboards that display a range of information, such as PFAS testing results, lead in school water testing results, and 25 years of testing data for select contaminants.

• Read more about Carbon Monoxide Metadata: Near Real-time Emergency Department (ED) Visits

Origin:

Near real-time emergency department visit data for potential carbon monoxide exposures are from the Maine CDC Infectious Disease Program’s syndromic surveillance system.

Dates Available

2017 to date

Geographic Resolution:

State, County

Abstract:

The Maine EPHT program receives daily counts of emergency department visits for carbon monoxide exposures from syndromic surveillance data collected by the Infectious Disease Program at the Maine CDC.

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Public Water Supply

Maine CDC's Drinking Water Program Water routinely tests water from public water supplies, collects data, and enforc

• Read more about New Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Data

The MaineTracking Network just published new data dashboards about carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning cases, events, deaths, and detectors. This is the first time MaineTracking has published data about the seasonality of CO exposure and sources of CO exposure. Having these data together makes it easy to recognize factors that may cause a higher risk of CO poisoning. Explore the data.

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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Maine tracks emergency department visits, reported cases, exposure events, and deaths related to carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. From this information we can monitor trends over time and identify common exposure hazards and groups at high risk.

• Read more about Tracking Awareness Week 2024

Join us for the ninth annual Tracking Awareness Week, themed “Be a Data Explorer!” This theme highlights unique data and tools on the MaineTracking Network that power public health action.

• Read more about Data About Maintaining a "Healthy Home"

Keeping your home clean and addressing issues that arise with water quality, lead paint, radon, or carbon monoxide are essential for maintaining a healthy home. Being aware of and preventing issues like lead or carbon monoxide poisoning may not be top of mind for some Maine homeowners, but these issues pose health threats that should be taken seriously.

• Read more about Little Tick, Big Deal - New Tickborne Disease Data

May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. To help Mainers prepare for tick season and prevent the spread of tickborne diseases, the MaineTracking Network has released updated tickborne disease data through the year 2022. In Maine, 2,652 cases of Lyme disease were reported in 2022, an increase of 1,142 cases from 2021. See these data at the town, county, and state levels, for the years 2001-2022.