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NEW: Public Health Matters Blog: Zombies Turning 1: Zombie Nation
Last year CDC told you how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (along with more realistic disasters like hurricanes and earthquakes), this year we’re featuring zombie preparedness stories from across the nation.
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NEW: Public Health Matters Blog: Money Well Spent: Public Health Dollars Save Lives
This demonstrates how the funding CDC provides to states for public health preparedness and response is being used to protect the public’s health every day. These dollars are an incredibly important way to connect the health care delivery system (e.g., hospitals and doctors offices) with public health and save on healthcare costs for everyone.
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NEW: Public Health Matters Blog: Testing…1,2,3: How Does CDC Respond to Anthrax?
This week, CDC’s Division of Strategic National Stockpile is practicing how it would respond to the release of anthrax in multiple locations across the nation. Four states – North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee and Kentucky – also are participating in this exercise so they, too, can test their abilities to respond.
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New: Helmet and Tornado Statement
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to recommend, as its highest priority recommendation, that people in the path of a tornado find a shelter or a tornado-safe room. The safest place in the home is the interior part of a basement. If possible, get under something sturdy such as a heavy table or workbench. If outdoors, lie down in a gully or ditch.
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Public Health Matters Blog: Be a Force of Nature
This time last year, storms ripped through the central and southern United States spawning more than 300 tornadoes and claiming hundreds of lives. This year we observed National Severe Weather Preparedness Week in memory of these tragic events and to encourage everyone to learn what to do when severe weather strikes.
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