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Encephalitis, inflammation of the brain, is caused by several different infectious and noninfectious entities. Encephalitis can be an uncommon complication of a common infection, such as infection with a herpes virus or with any of several vaccine-preventable disease viruses, or a predictable presentation of a rare pathogen, such as the ameba, Naegleria fowleri.

Despite more than a decade of prevention efforts and updated prevention guidelines published in 2010, group B Streptococcus (GBS) remains the leading cause of early onset neonatal sepsis in the United States (1). A free smartphone application, Prevent Group B Strep, is available from CDC to improve maternal and neonatal management of GBS disease prevention at the point-of-care.

Catherine Motswere-Chirwa, PDM1, Andrew Voetsch, PhD1, Lydia Lu, MPH1, Victor Letsholathebe2, Phenyo Lekone, PhD1, Esther Machakaire, MD1, Keitumetse Legwaila1, Stembile Matambo1, Maruping Maruping1, Thatayotlhe Kolobe1, Chipo Petlo2, Refeletswe Lebelonyane, MD2, Mary Glenshaw, PhD1, Helen Dale, BVSc, MBChB1, Margarett Davis, MD1, Shenaaz El Halabi, MPH2, Andrew Pelletier, MD1 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Paula Kriner, MPH1, Karla Lopez, MD1, Jessica Leung, MPH2, Rafael Harpaz, MD2, Stephanie R. Bialek, MD2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Vaccines prevent an estimated 2.5 million deaths among children younger than age 5 every year. Still, 1 child dies every 20 seconds from a disease that could have been prevented by a vaccine.

CDC's Office on Smoking and Health offers information related to smoking and tobacco use.

Patrick Ayscue, DVM, PhD1,2, Erin Murray, PhD2, Timothy Uyeki, MD3, Jennifer Zipprich, PhD2, Kathleen Harriman, PhD2, Catheryn Salibay, MPH2, Monica Kang2, Annie Luu2, Rose Glenn-Finer2, James Watt, MD2, Carol Glaser, DVM, MD2, Janice Louie, MD2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Carmen S. Arriola, DVM, PhD1,2, Lynnette Brammer, MPH2, Scott Epperson, MPH2, Lenee Blanton, MPH2, Krista Kniss, MPH2, Desiree Mustaquim, MPH2, Craig Steffens, MPH2, Rosaline Dhara, MPH2, Michelle Leon, MPH2, Alejandro Perez, MPH2, Sandra S. Chaves, MD2, Jackie Katz, PhD2, Teresa Wallis, MS2, Julie Villanueva, PhD2, Xiyan Xu, MD2, Anwar Isa Abd Elal2, Larisa Gubareva, PhD2, Nancy Cox, PhD2, Lyn Finelli, DrPH2, Joseph Bresee, MD2, Michael Jhung MD2 (Author affiliations at end of text).

Eli Kern, MPH1, Nadine L. Chan, PhD1, David W. Fleming, MD1, James W.

Brendan Flannery, PhD1, Swathi N. Thaker, PhD1, Jessie Clippard, MPH1, Arnold S. Monto, MD2, Suzanne E.