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Centers for Disease Control: Bam!: Got Butterflies? Find Out Why

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive resource delves deeply into the symptoms of stress, the difference between long and short term stress, and methods for stress management.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Safety: Play It Safe

For Students 3rd - 8th
Choose from a large collection of sports activities, from baseball, to snorkeling, to yoga, to find out how to stay safe while participating. In addition, find out more about each sport-what equipment is needed, how to play, what parts...
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Centers for Disease Control: Healthy Pets Healthy People: Salmonella Infection

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn what Salmonella is and how it can be transmitted to people from pets, poultry, rodents, and farm animals. Covers prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and provides numerous resources for further research.
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Centers for Disease Control: Obesity and Overweight Introduction

For Students 9th - 10th
The CDC provides a collection of information on obesity and the concerns that come with it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Home Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
Tips for preventing child injuries in the home such as burns, drownings, falls, and poisonings. Links to related podcasts.
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Centers for Disease Control: Tetanus [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
This detailed article from the Centers for Disease Control on tetanus has information on the incubation period, symptoms, complications, and treatment. Included are charts showing the decline of tetanus cases in the United States as well...
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Centers for Disease Control: Youth Health Risk Behaviors

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the CDC provides research results on health risk behaviors in the United States compared by race and ethnicity. Covers over twenty risk behaviors. Gives information in summaries, table sand charts.
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Centers for Disease Control: Fast Stats a to Z: Hypertension

For Students 9th - 10th
Statistical data provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This site offers US figures on hypertension, its prevalence and who it generally affects. Other data can be downloaded.
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Centers for Disease Control: Compendium of Rabies Prevention & Control

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Centers for Disease Control provides information about the rabies vaccine and immune globulin. It gives some background information on rabies, but mainly focuses on the vaccine, what it is comprised of, who should...
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Centers for Disease Control: Racial & Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed presentation of research conducted about the disparities between racial and ethnic mortality rates. Many tables and charts are provided to illustrate the results of the research. Good discussion on the reason why such...
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Centers for Disease Control: Public Health, 1900 1999 Motor Vehicle Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the reduction in vehicle-related deaths and the safety measures that made traveling safer. This article includes some information on the Highway Safety Act and the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Acts, through which...
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Centers for Disease Control: Protect Your Family From Rabies

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on rabies offers precautions to take to protect yourself, your family, and your pets from it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Atsdr: Tox Fa Qs? For Polychlorinated Biphenyls (Pc Bs)

For Students 9th - 10th
Solid background information on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Presented in a question and answer format. This site answers questions like what are PCB's, what happens to them when they enter the environment etc.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Ebola [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A fact card on Ebola hemorrhagic fever explains where this disease occur and the symptoms.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: E. Coli [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 9th
Fact card on E. coli, a bacterium that causes severe intestinal illness, explains where E. coli can be found and how to protect yourself from contracting it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Lyme Disease [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 9th
A fact card on Lyme disease and the deer tick that carries it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Infectious Diseases Cards: Rabies [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 9th
A one-page fact card on rabies describes the virus and explains how you can get it.
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Centers for Disease Control: Skin Cancer Awareness Month: Protect Your Skin

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on skin cancer: risk factors, the different types of skin cancer, and how to protect one's skin when exposed to the sun.
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Centers for Disease Control: Marriage and Divorce

For Students 9th - 10th
This National Center for Health Statistic page provides basic stats on marriage and divorce as well as related links to more detailed information.
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Centers for Disease Control: Influenza: The Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a list of "flu-like symptoms," learn who is at risk for developing the flu, and read about how the flu is spread. This website also provides a chart showing "peak months for flu activity" and advice for treating the flu and flu...
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Centers for Disease Control: The Influenza (Flu) Viruses

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the different types of flu viruses, and learn how the flu can spread and change. Learn how many people are hospitalized due to the influenza virus every year and more.
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Centers for Disease Control: Spina Bifida Incidence at Birth u.s., 1983 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an article which presents information on the spina bifida incidence in the United States, 1983-1990. It includes possible causes for trends.
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Centers for Disease Control: Spina Bifida Incidence at Birth u.s., 1983 1990

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is an article that presents information on the spina bifida incidence in the United States, 1983-1990. It includes possible causes for trends.
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Centers for Disease Control: Hoja Informativa a Sobre La Viruela: Generalidades De La Enfermedad

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides complete information on the smallpox disease such as the two clinical forms of smallpox, where smallpox comes from and other pertinent information about this disease.