![]() ![]() ![]() No cases have originated in the US since 1979. Polio– The devastating paralyzing & crippling disease, sometimes deforming, and sometimes deadly.It was a miserable disease and killed 3 out of 10 who had it. Dreadful disease that thank God was conquered. I won’t include a picture, but look it up if you have the stomach for it. It was eliminated throughout the entire world in 1980. Smallpox– The last case of the horrific, disfiguring & deadly smallpox in the US was eradicated in 1949.Common health concerns– such as obesity & malnutrition, dental disease, cholesterol, smoking, drug & alcohol abuse, violence.Childhood dangers– birth defects, autism, diseases & vulnerability, vaccination safety, and cancers, FAS (fetal alcohol syndrome in fetuses exposed to alcohol), violence & homicide.Environmental & Occupational Exposure & Dangers– Black Lung Disease, lead poisoning, anthrax, poisoning, cancer clusters, carbon monoxide poisoning, workplace homicide.Water, Food and Animal Borne Illnesses– infections from animals such as flu or the lung infection histoplasmosis, swimming with brain-eating amoeba & drinking water purity & protection, and food poisoning outbreaks. ![]() Training & developing a Laboratory Response Network (LRN)– a network of partnering labs trained & capable of rapid response to biological & chemical threats, and other health emergency events.Acquiring the Strategic National Stockpile of drugs, vaccinations & supplies for emergency health events.Also conducting decades long health studies on the people impacted by TMI and the 9/11 attacks. They monitored protective equipment and air quality during months of clean-up. They arrived within hours of the September 11th attacks to deliver medications from their stockpile to NY. Investigating health effects of disasters, such as the Three Mile Island nuclear accident and the Mount St.Also, in preventing transfer of Earth pathogens into space. Partnering with NASA’s space program to protect us from space contaminants & bacteria potentially present in interplanetary specimens brought back to Earth.Their work includes studies, work & prevention involving: But they study and work to combat a host of other dangers, too- natural, biological, chemical, radiological & nuclear. You know about the major, deadly diseases the CDC works to protect us from. And, if possible, Eradicate specific diseases, completely.Tracking & monitoring of diseases and dangers.Study– transmission, causes, treatments & prevention.Prepare & respond– emergency planning & disaster aid, quarantine management.Prevent– contraction, spread, complications.Educate– public, governments & healthcare agencies about public health dangers.Globally and at home, they investigate and battle worldwide disease and health threats by helping to: Many we don’t know or ever have to think about. They’re the experts and lab scientists who come face to face with all the scary things we fear- ebola, typhus, plague, TB, dysentery, HIV/ AIDS, meningitis, encephalitis, Q fever, cholera, brain and flesh-eating infections, and hundreds more. They continue to work around the world, sending teams into pandemics and outbreaks. The CDC eliminated it from the US just 5 years later in ’51. Seated in Atlanta, Georgia, the deep South with its warm, humid climate was the heart of the malaria zone. CDC (Then- Communicable Disease Center Today- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) was created in 1946 with the primary mission to prevent the spread of malaria in the US. The CDC Museum in Atlanta gives you the only behind the scenes look into the one of the most famous and interesting agencies in the world. ![]()
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