Tracking Valentines

What better way to tell someone you love them than by sharing a heartfelt Valentine’s Day greeting paired with important public health messaging? CDC’s Tracking program has lovingly created Valentine-themed social media images and messaging highlighting environment and health topics available on the Tracking Network’s Data Explorer tool.

Fire icon inside red heart with text: "My passion for you burns hot...but unlike wildfires it doesn't affect air quality."

Burning passions on Valentine’s Day is no cause for alarm, but smoke from wildfires can be. Not only can you view air quality data on CDC’s Tracking Network, but our Data Explorer tool also allows you to visualize wildland fire smoke in real time.

Scale icon & green heart with text: "My love for you is clear...just like the need for us to work toward environmental justice."

Togetherness isn’t only for Valentines. Banding together for justice to ensure all people have equal protection from environmental and health hazards is important. View CDC’s Environmental Justice dashboard or view data on the Tracking Network to identify demographic factors, environmental burdens, socioeconomic conditions, and public health concerns directly related to environmental justice.

water faucet icon inside decorative blue heart with text: "Nothing can quench my desire for you...not even our community's high quality drinking water. #TrackingValentine."

Just like your Valentine, don’t take your community water system’s treatment and monitoring of drinking water for granted. Drinking water protection programs at the state and national levels play a critical role in ensuring high-quality drinking water and in protecting the public’s health. Access CDC’s Tracking Network to view the only set of consistent drinking water quality data nationwide.

pesticide sprayer icon inside decorative violet heart with text: "Roses are red, violets are blue...watch out for possible pesticide residue!"

Spending extended time with your Valentine is bliss, but extended exposure to pesticides might be a health risk. CDC’s Tracking Network has data from poison control centers on pesticide exposures and related health effects to help identify trends and patterns over time and across geographies.

map pin icon inside decorative brown heart with text: "Valentine, if you were a Data Explorer mapping feature...you'd definitely be a point of interest! #TrackingValentine"

When you’re not spending time gazing into your Valentine’s eyes, take a peek at environmental and health data on CDC’s Tracking Network. Our data explorer tool allows you to search and download a variety of data in maps, charts, and tables. Additional mapping features such as points of interest and real-time data layers provide better information for better health.

Yellow heart with sun icon and text: Our love is warming up…just like extreme heat events due to climate change.

Hugs and kisses may warm your heart, but that’s not the only thing heating up. Extreme heat events due to climate change can impact your health. Visit the Tracking Network to view data and better prepare and respond to extreme heat-related events.

Purple heart with first aid icon and text: Now you’re speaking my love language…by making emergency preparedness and response plans.

There is nothing more attractive than being prepared for an emergency at any time. View Tracking Network data to better prepare for and respond to natural disasters or other public health emergencies in your area!

Red heart with smiley face icon and text: You make my heart happy…almost as much as preventing heart disease and stroke.

Love might make your heart skip a beat, but so can heart disease! Did you know that heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, causing about 1 in 4 deaths? Learn more about heart disease and view data on CDC’s Tracking Network.

Blue heart with radiation icon and text: My love for you can’t stay hidden anymore…unlike radon, a radioactive gas that the second leading cause of lung cancer.

You may be able to see the love someone has for you through a smile or warm embrace, but you cannot see radon. Radon is a harmful gas that is the second leading cause of lung cancer. View testing data and learn how to protect yourself and your family from radon today!

Purple heart with carbon monoxide detector icon and text: Let me show you how much I love you…by installing a carbon monoxide detector in your home.

Carbon Monoxide (CO) is no joke. It is an odorless, colorless gas that can kill you. CO is found in fumes produced any time you burn fuel in cars or trucks, small engines, stoves, lanterns, grills, fireplaces, gas ranges, or furnaces. CO can build up indoors and poison people and animals who breathe it. Learn more about CO and view unintentional poisoning data on the Tracking Network today.