How can malaria be prevented?
Malaria is a preventable disease that causes at least one million deaths each year, mostly among young children in Africa. Although malaria had been eliminated from the United States by 1951, approximately 1,400 travelers from the United States return with malaria each year. >> read the full text CDC Helps Monitor Smallpox Vaccine Safety More than 44,000 people were vaccinated against smallpox as part of the National Smallpox Pre-Event Vaccination Program, launched on December 13, 2002. CDC’s Immunization Safety Office took reports of medical problems among those who were vaccinated and investigated them to find out if they were caused by the smallpox vaccine. >> read the full text Measuring Health Established in 1984, CDC’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is the world’s largest telephone health survey. Data are collected on health risk behaviors, preventive health practices, and healthcare, and for many states, the BRFSS is the only available source of timely, accur
