Subject area to be addressed: Communicable disease monitoring. The following diseases will be removed from the list of reportable diseases: Encephalitis, other (non-arboviral); Meningitis, bacterial, cryptococcal and mycotic; Streptococcal disease, invasive Group A; Toxoplasmosis; Typhus fever (endemic). The following diseases will have clarifications to their reporting requirements: Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease; Hepatitis C, chronic; Haemophilus influenzae, meningitis and invasive disease; Lead poisoning; Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever; Vibriosis; Streptococcus pneumoniae, viral hemorrhagic fevers. Central-line-associated bloodstream infections in hospitalized patients are made reportable by giving DOH access to reports already being made by hospitals to the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).