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Center for Disease Control

The Center for Disease Control, or CDC is the leading national public health agency in the United States. It is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered just outside Atlanta, Georgia. The CDC aims to promote good health by preventing the growth and development of disease, injury and disability. The CDC focuses its efforts on preventable issues, such as infectious disease, foodborne pathogens, environmental health, injury prevention and occupational health and safety. However, the CDC also researches and provides information of national health issues that are much harder to fix, such as non-infectious diseases like obesity and diabetes. The Center for Disease Control
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The CDC is very involved in more than just monitoring diseases, because they have an impact on a very wide range of health. The CDC currently is doing much more to benefit us than we realize. They are battling, researching, and tracking diseases such as Zika before they can enter our country and cause a great deal of harm. The CDC is also impacting health care by working on a global scale, all with the goal to prevent diseases from entering the United States. The CDC has recently been working to not only tackle diseases but are working hard to ensure health within the home front. They recently released an informative article that spoke of diabetic and heart disease prevention for the common household and family. This article highlighted dietary precautionary measures that could be used to ensure good health. It focused on ways solving health issues on a small scale, such as a common home. This is a relatively new branch of the CDC. The CDC has generally been known for solving issues that plague nations and cities, but they now aim to ensure proper health in all facets of life. The goals within the Nation Center for Disease Control can generally be broken up into two sects, national goals and global goals. It’s featured national goal for the United States is controlling the growth of diabetes, while their global goal is to stop the growth and expansion of the Zika virus. Diabetes is a scary disease for the CDC to tackle because it doesn’t occur from a host being exposed to a foreign substance or object, rather can happen to anyone very suddenly and unsuspected. The Zika virus on the other hand is the featured global disease because it deals with a foreign organism coming in contact with a new

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