Maine CDC Offers Tips to Avoid Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

As Mainers head to camps, pull out their grills, and put boats in the water for the first time this season, health officials of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (MeCDC) have issued an advisory to raise awareness of the effects of carbon monoxide poisoning and how best to prevent it.

“Each year, we see a handful of poisonings and most could have been avoided,” said Dr. Sheila Pinette, director of the Me CDC. “You have to know how to prevent yourself from getting poisoned by carbon monoxide so a day of fun doesn’t become a day of tragedy,” said Pinette.

Private Well Water Metadata: Well Water Quality (Testing) Data

Origin:

Well water quality data are from the Maine Center for Disease Control's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory.

Dates Available:

1999 - 2019

Geographic Resolution:

County, Town

Abstract:

The Maine EPHT program receives well water sample data on an ad hoc basis from the Maine Center for Disease Control's Health and Environmental Testing Laboratory (HETL).

Tickborne Disease Metadata: Near Real-Time Emergency Department Visits for Suspected Tick Exposure

Origin:

Near real-time emergency department visits for suspected tick exposure are from the Maine CDC Infectious Disease Program’s syndromic surveillance system.

Dates Available:

2023 to date, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018; by week.

Geographic Resolution:

State

Abstract:

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

The dataset contains the following measure:

Tickborne Disease Metadata: Near Real-Time Incidence

Origin:

Near real-time tickborne disease case incidence data are from the Maine CDC’s Infectious Disease Program’s notifiable diseases surveillance system. Population data used to calculate county-level rates are from the U.S. Census Bureau.

Dates Available:

2019 to date

Abstract:

The Maine EPHT program receives daily data on tickborne diseases from the Infectious Disease Program at the Maine CDC.

The dataset contains the following measures, assessed at present (year-to-date):

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