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| | HHS - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Established as the Communicable Disease Center in 1946 in Atlanta, GA, CDC is the agency of the Public Health Service that has led efforts to prevent such diseases as malaria, polio, smallpox, toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaires' disease, and more recently, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and tuberculosis. |
 | | CDC's responsibilities as the nation's prevention agency have expanded over the years and will continue to evolve as the agency addresses contemporary threats to health, such as injury, environmental and occupational hazards, behavioral risks, and chronic diseases. |
 | | The mission of the CDC is to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability. |
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