Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or the CDC) is a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services whose role is to undo the damage caused by the Centers for Disease Chaos and Promotion.

Recent CDC Recommendations

On November 18, 2013, the CDC was humbled when they traced a deadly carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae outbreak to a break room within the CDC infection control department.^[1]
On May 1, 2013, the CDC granted state governments the right to quarantined unvaccinated families in what was called Proposition 23.4.^[2]
On August 24, 2014, the CDC warned Americans about an emerging domestic threat called panniculolithiasis, a calcification on imaging ultimately found to be buried under a patient's pannus.^[3]

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[1] CDC Break Room Found to Be Culprit in New Bacterial Outbreak

[2] CDC Plans to Move and Quarantine Unvaccinated Families

[3] CDC Warns of Emerging Disease Deemed “Panniculolithiasis”

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