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Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Pets Healthy People
Learn what you need to do to keep your pets healthy, to keep yourself safe from rabies, and to treat animal bites and scratches.
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Centers for Disease Control: Frequently Asked Flu Questions 2016 2017 Influenza Season
While flu spreads every year, the timing, severity, and length of the season varies from one year to another. Here are answers to some frequently asked questions.
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Centers for Disease Control: Weekly Us Map: Influenza Summary Update
A Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report Prepared by the Influenza Division.
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Centers for Disease Control: Shigella Shigellosis
The basic facts about shigellosis. Covers causes, symptoms, treatment and prevention.
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Centers for Disease Control: Hansen's Disease (Leprosy)
This summary of leprosy (also called Hansen's Disease) provides a medical description of the disease, the bacteria that causes it, how many cases there are, how the disease is treated, who's at risk, and more. Includes additional...
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Centers for Disease Control: National Center for Health Statistics
Statistics on births, deaths, and other health issues.
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Centers for Disease Control: Physical Activity and Health at a Glance
This website provides notes on exercise, its health benefits, and its role in helping all people feel healthier and stronger. Learn about different types of exercises you can do to improve you health. Also, read facts about adults and...
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Centers for Disease Control: West Nile Virus
Provides basic information on West Nile virus including how to avoid it and a map that shows which parts of the United States have the most cases.
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Centers for Disease Control: Atsdr: Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites
Extremely detailed look at the dangers associated with the hazardous and solid waste sites in the U.S.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: The Buzz on Scuzz
Information on the role that hands play in the spread of germs and disease and how hand washing, if done properly, can keep you safe.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Smile Style!
Essential information about keeping teeth healthy and bright.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Physical Activity: I "Heard" Hurdle Race
A short quiz with questions about the importance of physical activity.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Inside Scoop: Genetics
An introduction to heredity and genetics. Learn about how physical traits and other qualities are passed down to people from their parents.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Operation: Flame Out!
Tells the story of how, as tobacco became more popular, it changed human health, and what the CDC did to fight the epidemic.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Kabam! Comic Creator
Choose a scenario and decide the best choice of dialogue to use in the situation. Then create a comic to play out the rest of the situation.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body & Mind: Teacher's Corner: Collect & Analyze Safety Data
Students explore facts and figures for causes of injuries and deaths of children their age by conducting a classroom survey and analyzing the data. Students learn about different kinds of health data collected by the government, and...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Your Safety, H2 O Smarts
Summer water fun is a splash, but it is important to keep you and your loved ones safe. Maximize your watertime fun with these helpful hints.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Teacher's Corner: If Those Dolls Were Real People
A lesson exploring how the media influences body images. Students take measurement of dolls and characters to compare them with a chart on the website to show what the dolls and characters would look like if they were the height of an...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Effects of Smoking on the Body [Pdf]
Young scholars study the effects smoking tobacco has on the major organs of the human body. They also develop a presentation to persuade others to not start the smoking habit.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Hand Washing Experiment
By conducting two experiments, this lesson plan will help students discover the importance of thoroughly washing hands and the role that plays as a way to prevent the spread of disease.
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Centers for Disease Control: St. Louis Encephalitis
Site goes into great detail about St. Louis encephalitis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Lyme Disease
With this resource, students can read about the discovery, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, which is caused by "Bacteria transmitted to humans by the bite of infected deer ticks." This article includes detailed images...
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Centers for Disease Control: Trichinosis
Fact sheet, which is provided for by the Center for Disease Control, concerning trichinosis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Importance of Washing Hands
This site from the Center for Disease Control provides an explanation of why it is important to wash your hands and the consequences if you don't. Also provides step-by-step directions of hand washing.