Germ Warfare: What People Can Do to Protect Themselves
Rather than spend an inordinate amount of time worrying about Ebola 157 or hanta virus, people can conduct their own personal campaign against germs and microbes. Vaccines are available, not only for childhood diseases but flu and pneumonia. The pro...
Germ Warfare: Monitoring Health in the United States and Beyond
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is the agency responsible for monitoring the health status of the American people. In 1946, when troops were returning home from Europe and the Pacific after World War II, there were public health conce...
Germ Warfare: Centers for Disease Control Diversify, The
With the eradication of most infectious diseases, the CDC began to expand into chronic diseases, then injury control and prevention as the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was incorporated into the organization. In the last few ...
Germ Warfare: It's One Small Boat: Tactics Required to Combat Disease
When it comes to health, the world community lives in "one small boat." International awareness and cooperation even extends to our food supply. Changes in how food is grown and handled, increased international travel, people crammed together in uns...
Germ Warfare: The Unexplained Death Project
In order to stay a step ahead of the bugs, the CDC has started "The Unexplained Death Project" in several areas of the country. When clinicians believe a death is related to an infectious disease they cannot identify; they submit specimens for the C...
Germ Warfare: Resistance to Antibiotics: A Major Emerging Problem
Resistance to antibiotics, one of our major medical tools, is occurring both in hospitals and communities. It is critical that people only request or accept antibiotics from their health care provider when it's absolutely necessary, and when they do...
Germ Warfare: Aggressive Microbes; Deadly Outbreaks
In recent years a strike force of deadly microbes has taken aim at the world. Because these bacteria and viruses multiply quickly, they evolve rapidly into more aggressive strains. Often a new pathogen like e coli 157 is discovered when there are si...
Germ Warfare: Vaccines and Childhood Diseases
The vaccine-preventable diseases of childhood are rarely seen in the industrialized nations of the world because of the immunization programs that exist. As the world health community gains control over polio, measles which kills 10% of the children...