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Taking preventive action is your best defense against having to deal with extreme cold-weather conditions. By preparing your home and car in advance for winter emergencies, and by observing safety precautions during times of extremely cold weather, you can reduce the risk of weather-related health problems.

National Drinking Water Week - Graph

A high amount of body fat can lead to weight-related diseases and other health issues and being underweight can also put one at risk for health issues. Learn more.

The Children's BMI Tool for Schools is an Excel spreadsheet intended for use by school, child care, and other professionals who want to compute Body Mass Index (BMI)-for-age for a group of up to 2000 children, for example a school class room or grade. Learn more.

Information on Yellow Fever. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Information on Yellow Fever. Provided by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Interim Guidance for Workers who are Employed at Commercial Swine Farms - CDC

Interim Guidance for Enhanced Influenza Surveillance: Additional Specimen Collection for Detection of Influenza A (H3N2) Variant Virus Infections - CDC

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Reports of Human Infections with Variant Viruses - CDC

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CDC Works For You 24/7 Protecting People - CDC Ramps up Support for Final Push in Global Polio Eradication Effort - On Wednesday, December 14, 2011, CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., charged the entire CDC community to become active participants in an intensified strategy to eradicate polio, worldwide. The briefing followed Dr. Frieden’s December 2nd announcement activating CDC’s Emergency Operations Center for the agency’s partnership engagement through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI).

CDC Works For You 24/7 Protecting People - Working to Protect Against the Dangers of Dengue - Dengue, a painful and sometimes deadly viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes, threatens more than 3.5 billion people worldwide. Dengue is endemic in at least 100 countries in Southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, the Caribbean, Central America, South America, and parts of Africa. As many as 100 million people become infected yearly, and nearly 500,000, mostly children, develop the potentially deadly dengue hemorrhagic fever.