CDC Around the World: Global Disease Detection

CDC Around the World: Global Disease Detection

PHOTO OF THE WEEK

CDC Regional Emergency Coordinator travels the world to set up Emergency Operations Centers. View full-sized photo

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Global Disease Detection

CDC Ebola Updates

In the News

On the Calendar

Spotlighted Topic of the Week: Global Disease Detection 

Blog of the Week

PEOPLE. PATHOGENS. PROTECTION. The biggest challenges are always the unknowns–the things we can’t predict, which seem to come out of nowhere and command our attention. I was called to Vietnam in 2003 when SARS struck...read blog

Infographic of the Week

GLOBAL DISEASE DETECTION: ADVANCING THE SCIENCE OF GLOBAL HEALTH

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Video of the Week

GLOBAL DISEASE DETECTIVES CDC global health leadership brings the world's leading public health experts to a Guatemala cave, where rabid bats threaten human health. Elsewhere, CDC community workers keep a health watch over Kenya's poor; while in China, CDC scientists protect babies from a mysterious outbreak...watch video

Story of the Week

TAKE A TEN-COUNTRY TOUR WITH GLOBAL DISEASE DETECTIVES Scarcely a week goes by without a grim reminder in the news of the deadly threat of infectious diseases. We don’t know what the next health threat will be, or when it will strike, or where. But we do know what is needed: people on the ground...read story

CDC Ebola Updates



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Latest Outbreak Info The World Health Organization has reported 28,639 cases of Ebola and 11,315 deaths worldwide...read more Updated Case Counts (From WHO Situation Reports) Ebola Survivors Updated CDC Responder Stories

In the News

Remain Calm: Kissing Bugs Are Not Invading The US
WiredDecember 3, 2015

New CDC Data Provide Important Insight on Viral Testing and Access to Treatment in High Burden Areas
CDC MMWRNovember 25, 2015

How CDC Employee Survived Terrifying Attack at Mali Hotel
ABC World News TonightNovember 22, 2015

America’s War on the Kissing Bug
The New YorkerNovember 20, 2015

CDC Director: A global plan to prevent, detect, and respond to the next killer disease
Fox NewsNovember 17, 2015

On the Calendar

January 31: World Leprosy Day
February 4: World Cancer Day
February 20: World Day of Social Justice
March 3: World Birth Defects Day