CDC Vital Signs offers recent data and calls to action for important public health issues.
June 2013 Vital Signs Issue: Recipe for Food Safety
Many germs can be spread through food. Some, like Listeria, can be deadly. Listeria strikes hard at pregnant women and their newborns, older adults, and people with weakened immune systems. Listeria can cause miscarriage and meningitis. Most people found to have Listeria infection require hospital care and about 1 in 5 people with the infection die. Outbreak investigations tell us what foods make people sick and what needs to change to make food safer and save lives. We have made some progress against Listeria, which is the third leading cause of death from food poisoning. However, we can do more to protect people at higher risk for food poisoning and make food safer for everyone.
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Hepatitis C
Testing baby boomers saves lives.
Preventing Repeat Teen Births
Although teen birth rates have been falling for the last two
decades, more than 365,000 teens, ages 15–19, gave birth
in 2010.
Hepatitis C
Testing baby boomers saves lives.
Making Health Care Safer: Stop Infections from Lethal CRE Germs Now
Untreatable and hard-to-treat infections from CRE germs are on the rise among patients in medical facilities.
Adult Smoking
Focusing on People with Mental Illness.
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About Vital Signs
CDC launched a new program called CDC Vital Signs, which includes an MMWR Early Release, a fact sheet and website, a media release, and a series of announcements via social media tools.
Vital Signs will be released the first Tuesday of every month. Issues include colorectal and breast cancer screening, obesity, alcohol and tobacco use, access to health care, HIV testing, seat belt use, cardiovascular disease, teen pregnancy and healthcare-associated infections, asthma, and foodborne disease.
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