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CDC Telebriefing: Transcript for Vital Signs African American Health - Transcript
New Vital Signs Report - African Americans are living longer. The death rate for African Americans has declined about 25% over 17 years, primarily for those aged 65 years and older
African-American Death Rate Drops 25 Percent - Press Release
The death rate for African-Americans (blacks) declined 25 percent from 1999 to 2015, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report released today.
African American Health: Creating Equal Opportunities for Health
The death rate for African Americans dropped 25% from 1999-2015, but they are still more likely to die at a young age than white Americans.
U.S.-licensed yellow fever vaccine supply to be depleted by mid-2017 - Media Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention outlines a plan to ensure a continuous yellow fever vaccine supply in the United States following the anticipated depletion of the U.S.-licensed YF-VAX® yellow fever vaccine in mid-2017,
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - African-American Health: What can public health professionals and community organizations do to help achieve better health outcomes? - Media Advisory
Death rates for African-Americans have declined about 25 percent over 17 years, primarily for those ages 65 years and older.
U.S. Cancer Statistics Data Visualization Website
CDC releases NEW, interactive U.S. Cancer Statistics data displays that improve the access to and look of the official federal cancer statistics.
Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: EIS Conference - Transcript
Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: EIS Conference
Dispatches from the Front Lines: CDC's Disease Detective Conference - Press Release
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will hold its 66th Annual Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference April 24-27, 2017, in Atlanta. The event showcases recent groundbreaking and often life-saving investigations by EIS officers-better known as CDC's disease detectives.
Campylobacter, Salmonella led bacterial foodborne illnesses in 2016 - Press Release
Campylobacter and Salmonella caused the most reported bacterial foodborne illnesses in 2016, according to preliminary data published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes on the rise among children, teens - Press Release
Rates of new diagnosed cases of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are increasing among youth in the United States, according to a report, Incidence Trends of Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes among Youths, 2002-2012, published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
66th Annual EIS Conference - Media Advisory
CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) will host the 66th Annual EIS Conference from April 24-27 in Atlanta. During the event, EIS officers-also known as CDC disease detectives-describe the investigations they conducted over the past year.
CDC assisting investigation of animal material found in packaged salad - Media Statement
Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) are working with the Florida Department of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support an investigation of a dead bat that was found in a packaged salad purchased from a grocery store in Florida.
Zika Virus: Protecting Pregnant Women and Babies
About 1 in 10 U.S. pregnant women with confirmed Zika had a fetus or baby with birth defects in 2016. Nearly 1,300 pregnant women with evidence of possible Zika infection were reported in 44 US states in 2016.
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Zika Virus - Transcript
New Vital Signs Report - Possible Zika virus infections in 44 U.S. states: What can healthcare providers do to help protect pregnant women and their babies?
About 1 in 10 U.S. pregnant women with confirmed Zika infection had a fetus or baby with birth defects in 2016 - Press Release
Of the 250 pregnant women who had confirmed Zika infection in 2016, 24 - or about 1 in 10 of them - had a fetus or baby with Zika-related birth defects, according to a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CDC Study Finds Flu Vaccine Saves Children's Lives - Press Release
A new CDC study published today in Pediatrics is the first of its kind to show that flu vaccination significantly reduced a child's risk of dying from influenza.
Annual Report to the Nation: Cancer Death Rates Continue to Decline - Press Release
Overall cancer death rates continue to decrease in men, women, and children for all major racial and ethnic groups, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, 1975-2014.
One in four U.S. middle and high school students say they've been exposed to secondhand aerosol from e-cigarettes - Press Release
About one in four U.S. middle and high school students- nearly 6.5 million youths -report being exposed to secondhand aerosol from e-cigarettes at least once within the past 30 days, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
CDC Foundation's New Business Pulse Focuses on Opioid Overdose Epidemic - Media Advisory
Business Pulse: Opioid Overdose Epidemic, launched today by the CDC Foundation, explores how the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is working to protect individuals from the widespread opioid overdose epidemic.
CDC identifies potential risk of Zika virus transmission since June 15, 2016, in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties - Media Statement
CDC has identified a potential risk of Zika virus transmission starting on June, 15, 2016, to present in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that also could affect risk for residents of Broward and Palm Beach counties.
CDC Telebriefing: Zika update - Media Advisory
CDC and FDA provide an update on potential increased risk of Zika virus in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties.
CDC updates Zika travel guidance for pregnant women to not travel to any area with Zika risk - Media Statement
CDC has updated its Zika travel guidance and now recommends that pregnant women not travel to any area where there is a risk of Zika virus infection, including areas where the virus has been newly introduced or reintroduced and local mosquito-borne transmission is ongoing; areas where the virus was present before 2015 (endemic) and there is no evidence transmission has stopped; and areas where the virus is likely to…
CDC adds 4 countries to interim travel guidance related to Zika virus - Media Statement
CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing spread of Zika virus?. Today, CDC posted a Zika virus travel notice for Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Maldives and Solomon Islands.
CDC: Outbreak of North American avian influenza A(H7N9) in poultry poses low risk to people - Media Statement
CDC is working closely with USDA APHIS and the Tennessee Department of Health to minimize any human health risk posed by the avian influenza outbreak in Lincoln County, Tennessee. This includes implementing a protocol to monitor the health of poultry workers exposed to commercial poultry involved in the USDA/APHIS-confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) A (H7N9) outbreak. At this time, no human infection…
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Arthritis in America - Transcript
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Arthritis in America - Transcript
Arthritis in America
Arthritis limits daily activities of 24 million adults in the United States, making it hard for them to hold a cup, lift a grocery bag, or walk to their car. And, the percentage of adults limited by arthritis continues to get worse and has increased by about 20 percent since 2002.
Arthritis Limits Daily Activities of 24 million US Adults - Press Release
More than 24 million adults with arthritis have activity limitations from their disease. The percentage of adults with arthritis who have activity limitations grew from 35.9% in 2002 to 42.8% in 2014, a significant increase of 20% overall and independent of the aging of the population.
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Why is the Number of US Adults Struggling with Arthritis Continuing to Climb? - Media Advisory
According to the latest CDC Vital Signs, more than 54 million US adults have arthritis - 24 million of whom are limited in performing daily activities.
Nation sees near doubling in colorectal cancer screening in 2015 compared with 2000 - Press Release
More adults are getting recommended screening tests for colorectal cancer, but not for breast or cervical cancers, according to data released today in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
CDC, FDA, and states investigating multistate E. coli outbreak - Media Statement
CDC, FDA, and several states are investigating an outbreak of 12 illnesses of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) O157:H7 reported from several states.
CDC study estimates 20-fold increase in certain types of birth defects in pregnancies with possible Zika infection compared with pre-Zika years - Media Statement
The proportion of Zika-affected pregnancies with birth defects is approximately 20-fold higher compared with the proportion of pregnancies seen in 2013-2014, which is before Zika was introduced into the Americas, according to an article published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
'500 Cities' website: Users can explore neighborhood health data - Press Release
Users of a new, interactive web application can view and explore city-and neighborhood-level health data for America's 500 largest cities.
CDC review finds acceptable air quality supplied by air hoses in laboratories - Media Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has completed its examination of the quality of the air that comes through breathing hoses used by laboratory scientists working in its Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) labs.
CDC hosts vector control experts to discuss strategies to combat Aedes aegypti - Media Advisory
CDC, in collaboration with the CDC Foundation, will convene a two-day meeting February 27-28, 2017, to exchange facts and information about options and methods for monitoring and controlling Aedes aegypti mosquitoes and to reduce the burden of illness in people from Zika and other diseases transmitted by this mosquito.
CDC reviewing air quality associated with air hoses in some laboratories - Media Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has begun a review of air quality associated with the use of air hoses attached to protective suits worn in its Biosafety Level-4 labs. There is no known exposure to hazardous pathogens or contaminated air within the labs, and the air used in these hoses has already been filtered for pathogens using HEPA filters.
CDC Museum Exhibition-Then & Now: Reinventing Quarantine for Globalization - Media Advisory
A new CDC museum exhibit, Then & Now: Reinventing Quarantine for Globalization, presents the untold story - contrasting the Then and Now - of reinventing the CDC Quarantine Program for an increasingly globalized world.
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Too loud! For Too long! - Transcript
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Too loud! For Too long!
New Vital Signs study finds noise-related hearing loss not limited to work exposure - Press Release
Unless your hearing is tested, it's really hard to know if it's damaged. That's the message of a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) survey that found about one in four U.S. adults who say their hearing is good or excellent actually have hearing damage.
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Too loud! For Too long! - Media Advisory
According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, many adults don't hear as well as they think they do. About 40 million Americans ages 20 to 69 have hearing loss in one or both ears. Being around too much loud noise-like using a leaf blower or going to loud concerts - can cause permanent hearing loss.
CDC Assisting Illinois and Wisconsin Investigation of Seoul Virus Outbreak Associated with Home-based Rat-Breeding Facilities - Media Statement
Experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are working with the Illinois Department of Health and the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to investigate cases of Seoul virus infections among eight people who worked at several rat-breeding facilities in the two states.
South African Study Provides Compelling New Evidence on Role of Person-to Person Transmission in Drug-Resistant TB Epidemics - Press Release
A study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine provides compelling evidence that extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB) is spread from person-to-person in the KwaZulu-Natal province, South Africa from 2011-2014.
NIOSH launches hearing loss prevention app - Media Advisory
CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) announces the availability of a new mobile application (app) for iOS devices that will measure sound levels in the workplace to help workers learn about their noise exposure and reduce the chances of hearing loss.
Rural Americans at higher risk of death from five leading causes - Press Release
A new CDC study demonstrates that Americans living in rural areas are more likely to die from five leading causes than their urban counterparts.
CDC and SHAPE America Release New Resources to Improve Recess in Schools - Media Advisory
Strategies for Recess in Schools identifies 19 effective strategies schools can implement to increase student physical activity and academic achievement
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Transcript
What approaches from the Indian Health Service can be applied to other populations to reduce kidney failure and prevent diabetes deaths?
Native Americans with Diabetes
Remarkable progress made reducing kidney failure from diabetes in Native American populations. Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
Remarkable progress made reducing kidney failure from diabetes in Native American populations - Press Release
Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Media Advisory
What approaches from the Indian Health Service can be applied to other populations to reduce kidney failure and prevent diabetes deaths?
Native Americans with diabetes - Digital Press Kit
Remarkable progress made reducing kidney failure from diabetes in Native American populations. Federal data show diabetes-related kidney failure among Native American adults (American Indians/Alaskan Natives) decreased 54 percent between 1996 and 2013.
Tips From Former Smokers(TM): landmark anti-smoking campaign begins sixth year January 9 - Media Advisory
CDC's Tips From Former Smokers campaign will be back on the air for at least 20 weeks in 2017. The 15- and 30-second ads will run nationally on cable and network television and online, supported by print versions.
CDC Highlights Significant Contributions in the Fight against Zika in 2016 - Press Release
Seventy years after CDC was founded to fight mosquitoes that carried malaria, CDC found itself entrenched in combat with another mosquito-borne illness, Zika virus.
CDC awards nearly $184 million to continue the fight against Zika - Press Release
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced today it is awarding nearly $184 million in funding to states, territories, local jurisdictions, and universities to support efforts to protect Americans from Zika virus infection and associated adverse health outcomes, including microcephaly and other serious birth defects.
New data show continuing opioid epidemic in the United States - Press Release
Drug overdose deaths, including opioid overdose deaths, continue to increase in the United States, according to new data published today in CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
CDC Releases Preliminary Estimates of Birth Defects Following Zika Virus Infection in Pregnancy - Press Release
In a new report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, CDC scientists used preliminary data from the US Zika Pregnancy Registry (USZPR) to estimate that 6 percent of completed pregnancies following Zika virus infection were affected by one or more birth defects potentially related to Zika virus infection during pregnancy.
CDC Issues Zika Virus Guidance for Brownsville, Texas - Media Statement
CDC has issued Zika-related travel and testing guidance for Brownsville, Cameron County, Texas, following reports from Texas public health officials of five cases spread locally by mosquitoes. This information suggests that there may be a risk of continued spread of Zika virus and therefore pregnant women are at some risk for Zika virus infection. CDC is designating the city of Brownsville as a Zika cautionary area …
CDC in 2016: Keeping America Safe From Health Threats New And Old - Press Release
The health threats of 2016 came in all sizes, ranging from drug-resistant superbugs to Zika-carrying mosquitoes to a powerful hurricane. In a digital press kit released today, CDC highlights key agency activities during 2016 and previews what could come in 2017.
Study Finds Zika Virus Replicates and Persists in Fetal Brains and Placentas - Press Release
Zika virus can make thousands of copies of itself in fetuses' brains and in the placentas of pregnant women, which may help explain how the virus causes devastating birth defects and pregnancy losses even if a woman had only a minor illness.
Flu vaccine coverage remains low this year - Press Release
As of early November, only about 2 out of 5 people in the United States reported having gotten this season's flu vaccine, yet flu vaccine offered substantial benefit last season by preventing an estimated 5 million flu illnesses and 71,000 flu hospitalizations.
CDC updates Zika guidance for South Miami Beach (FL) area - Media Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has updated guidance for people who travel to or live in the previously identified area of South Miami Beach, FL. This area is no longer considered to be an area of active Zika virus transmission (red area). It is now designated as a Zika cautionary area (yellow area). There have been no new cases of local Zika virus transmission identified in South Miami Beach fo…
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