Active Bacterial Core Surveillance (ABCs) is a collaboration between the CDC, NYSDOH, and the URMC.  ABCs covers approximately 13.5% of the United States population across 10 EIP sites and conducts active population-based surveillance of invasive-pathogens of public health importance including:

• Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Neisseria meningitidis
• Haemophilus influenzae
• Group A Streptococcus
• Group B Streptococcus

Enhanced surveillance activities are conducted for:

• Pertussis
• Haemophilus influenzae Neonatal Sepsis (Hinses)

Special studies:

• Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Effectiveness Evaluation
• Establishment of Group B Streptococcal Immunologic Correlates of Protection 
• Genetic Predictors of Developing Severe Outcomes from Invasive Group A Streptococcal Infections
• Surveillance for Non-invasive Pneumococcal Pneumonia (SNiPP)

Participating New York State counties: Albany, Columbia, Genesee, Greene, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Ontario, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Wayne, and Yates

More information about ABCs pathogens can be found at Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs)

Bact Facts Interactive

This tool allows you to view data that we have collected as part of the ABCs Network across the ten EIP sites Bact Facts Interactive.

The FoodNet surveillance network tracks, monitors, and estimates the number of foodborne illnesses occurring in NYS EIP counties in conjunction with the CDC, the Food Safety and Inspection Services (FSIS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and clinical and state public health laboratories as well as providers. The data is utilized to assess burden and attribute illness to specific food and environmental sources. The pathogens that are monitored include:

• Campylobacter
• Listeria
• Salmonella
• Shigella
• Vibrio
• Yersinia
• Cyclospora
• Shiga-Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) 0157
• Shiga-Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli (STEC) non- 0157

Participating New York State counties: Albany, Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Chemung, Clinton, Columbia, Delaware, Erie, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Genesee, Greene, Hamilton, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans, Otsego, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Wyoming, and Yates.

For more information on FoodNet surveillance and projects FoodNet Surveillance

For more information on foodborne disease cases FoodNet Fast

Information about Food Safety Practices can be found at Educational Materials

NARMS Now

This tool allows you to view data collected through the National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria: National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System for Enteric Bacteria (NARMS)

FluSurv-Net is an active hospital-based surveillance network that collects information on individuals with laboratory confirmed influenza (flu). This network includes the CDC, state health departments, laboratories, and hospitals and spans counties across the United States. Surveillance is conducted for children and adults over 18 years in all 10 EIP sites as well as Michigan, Ohio, Iowa and Utah and spans an area with approximately 29 million people. This surveillance network started with the 2003-2004 flu season in children hospitalized with flu and expanded in the 2005-2006 influenza season to include hospitalized adults.

Information is collected from laboratories, medical charts, and providers to determine how many people get sick with influenza among the EIP counties and describe the characteristics of individuals that may have led to severe disease. 

The FluSurv-Net program also assesses those people for whom the Advisory Committee on Vaccination Practices (ACIP) recommends vaccination. Vaccination status is obtained through vaccine registries, primary care providers, and patients.

Participating New York State counties: Albany, Columbia, Genesee, Greene, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Ontario, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Wayne, and Yates.

Information about Flu activity in the United States for different age groups can be found on FluView, an interactive data tool created by the CDC.

Weekly summaries of flu activity can be found here Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report.

Using the FluSurv-Net network and surveillance framework, the NYSDOH works with the CDC, clinical and public health laboratories, and providers to collect information on children and adults hospitalized with laboratory confirmed Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), a common respiratory virus that usually causes mild, cold-like symptoms.

With approximately 177,000 individuals hospitalized with RSV annually and over 50 vaccines in development, the project works to determine the baseline burden of disease by collecting information on individual risk factors, disease presentations, and complications.

Participating New York State counties: Albany, Columbia, Genesee, Greene, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Ontario, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Wayne, and Yates.

COVID-NET is an active population-based surveillance network that collects information on children and adults hospitalized with laboratory confirmed COVID-19. The COVID-NET surveillance network was created in March 2020 in response to the outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. The surveillance platform aims to generate population-based rates of COVID-19, characterize severe disease, and inform pandemic response efforts.

COVID-NET represents approximately 10% of the U.S. population, spanning 99 counties nationwide. States participating in the network include the 10 EIP sites plus Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Utah. The network includes the CDC, state health departments, laboratories, and hospitals.

Participating New York State counties: Albany, Columbia, Greene, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Montgomery, Ontario, Orleans, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Wayne, and Yates.

Information about COVID-19 hospitalization rates and patient characteristics in the United States can be found on CDC’s Laboratory-Confirmed COVID-19-Associated Hospitalizations dashboard.

Information on rates of COVID-19 hospitalizations by vaccination status can be found on CDC’s COVID Data Tracker.

TickNet was established in 2007 and is a collaboration among the CDC, state health departments, and academic institutions. With over 130,000 cases of Lyme Disease reported in NYS between 1986 and 2018, NYSDOH works to help define, identify, and improve public health programs to reduce the burden of Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

New York State TickNet also conducts special studies for public health intervention:

• Lyme Disease Vaccine Acceptability Study
• Cost of Lyme Disease Study
• Healthcare Professionals Working in Schools Survey
• Primary prevention and control measures to reduce burden of disease
• Lyme Disease Surveillance Studies
• Tickborne Disease Laboratory Surveys

Information on research and publications by the TickNET program can be found on the CDC's website TickNET.

URMC conducts EIP Healthcare Associated Infections-Community Interface (HAIC) surveillance studies and special projects. HAIC surveillance activities contribute to an improved understanding of the epidemiology and burden of health-care associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. Information on EIP activities conducted by URMC can be found on its website. Emerging Infections Program

URMC collects data on women with precancerous cervical lesions and cervical cancer, all caused by human papillomavirus (HPV), to monitor the impact of the HPV vaccine. HPV-Impact Monitoring identifies adult women with abnormal cell growths to determine if the vaccine is effective in reducing the burden of HPV associated cervical cancers.

More information on the HPV-Impact study can be found on the University of Rochester website Human Papillomavirus Vaccine Impact Monitoring Project