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Centers for Disease Control: Extreme Heat Prevention Guide
This site provides an excellent guide for preventing both heat stroke and heat exhaustion.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Tsunamis
A page for younger students that provides brief answers to frequently asked questions about tsunamis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Lyme Disease and Animals
This article from the Centers for Disease Control has a very short write-up on the causes and signs of Lyme disease, which is followed by information on how animals can indirectly transmit the disease to humans.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Vaccines [Pdf]
Fact sheet describing the importance of getting vaccinations to prevent disease.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Polio [Pdf]
Fact sheet on polio describes its symptoms as well as how it is contracted and how it is prevented.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: West Nile Virus [Pdf]
A fact card on West Nile virus answers questions about what causes it and how to protect against it.
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Centers for Disease Control: West Nile Virus
This resource, which is provided for by the Center for Disease Control, goes into great detail about West Nile Virus, which can go into encephalitis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Key Facts About Avian Influenza (Bird Flu) and Avian Influenza a (H5 N1) Virus
This site provides general information about avian influenza (bird flu) and one type of bird flu (H5N1). Information is also provided on human health risks, treatment, and vaccination.
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Centers for Disease Control: Avian Influenza Infection in Humans
This concise site provides a listing of confirmed instances of avian influenza infecting humans since 1997.
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Centers for Disease Control: Health Information for Specific Groups
Information that explains the effects of radiation exposure on pregnant women and their unborn babies.
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Centers for Disease Control: Antibiotic Resistance
A brief discussion of antibiotic resistant bacteria.
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Centers for Disease Control: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
At this site there are some quick facts, presented in a simple chart, about the dangers of smokeless tobacco.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Tick Tactics
Safety information for how to be on the lookout for ticks. Learn how to protect yourself from Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
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Centers for Disease Control: Mold
Resource provides facts about mold, health concerns with mold in homes damaged by hurricanes, and mold prevention strategies.
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Centers for Disease Control: Survey and Data Collection
Site contains statistical data for the National Center for Health Statistics.
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Centers for Disease Control: Fact Sheet: Trichinosis
A fact sheet about trichinosis from the CDC. Includes information on what it is, symptoms, and how it spreads.
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Centers for Disease Control: Trichinellosis
Site from the Centers for Disease Control provides information about the causes of trichinosis and the life cycle of the disease. Very brief but helpful links and information.
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Centers for Disease Control: Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work
This particular site discusses the surge in drug-resistant bacteria, and what you can do to prevent one from using you as a petri dish.
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Centers for Disease Control: Ascaris Infection
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides information on Ascaris, an infection caused by a worm in the intestine. Includes fact sheet, links, and more.
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Centers for Disease Control: Heart Fact Sheet
A revealing chart is found in this brief site that illuminates the areas of the country where the highest heart disease death rates are found. You will also find heart disease facts which contain several revealing points about the...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Teacher's Corner: Ad Decoder
Allow your students to explore what media ads are really telling them. This lesson gives students critical question to investigate as they look over ads. Lesson includes background, procedure, worksheet, rubrics, and discussion questions.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Keeping Your Cool
Discover ways to keep your body cool and avoid dehydration.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Sun Proof
Tips for protecting yourself from the sun.
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Centers for Disease Control: Helicobacter Pylori and Peptic Ulcer Disease
Here are some "Ulcer Facts," and a link to information on Ulcer Awareness Week from the Centers for Disease Control. This website gives a very short write-up on what ulcers are and how they develop. Included is a toll free number one can...