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Centers for Disease Control: Atsdr: Superfund Hazardous Waste Sites
Extremely detailed look at the dangers associated with the hazardous and solid waste sites in the U.S.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: The Buzz on Scuzz
Information on the role that hands play in the spread of germs and disease and how hand washing, if done properly, can keep you safe.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Smile Style!
Essential information about keeping teeth healthy and bright.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Physical Activity: I "Heard" Hurdle Race
A short quiz with questions about the importance of physical activity.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Inside Scoop: Genetics
An introduction to heredity and genetics. Learn about how physical traits and other qualities are passed down to people from their parents.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Your Body: Operation: Flame Out!
Tells the story of how, as tobacco became more popular, it changed human health, and what the CDC did to fight the epidemic.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Kabam! Comic Creator
Choose a scenario and decide the best choice of dialogue to use in the situation. Then create a comic to play out the rest of the situation.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body & Mind: Teacher's Corner: Collect & Analyze Safety Data
Students explore facts and figures for causes of injuries and deaths of children their age by conducting a classroom survey and analyzing the data. Students learn about different kinds of health data collected by the government, and...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Your Safety, H2 O Smarts
Summer water fun is a splash, but it is important to keep you and your loved ones safe. Maximize your watertime fun with these helpful hints.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Teacher's Corner: If Those Dolls Were Real People
A lesson exploring how the media influences body images. Students take measurement of dolls and characters to compare them with a chart on the website to show what the dolls and characters would look like if they were the height of an...
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Teacher's Corner: Effects of Smoking on the Body [Pdf]
Students study the effects smoking tobacco has on the major organs of the human body. They also develop a presentation to persuade others to not start the smoking habit.
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Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Hand Washing Experiment
By conducting two experiments, this lesson will help students discover the importance of thoroughly washing hands and the role that plays as a way to prevent the spread of disease.
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Centers for Disease Control: St. Louis Encephalitis
Site goes into great detail about St. Louis encephalitis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Lyme Disease
With this resource, students can read about the discovery, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of Lyme disease, which is caused by "Bacteria transmitted to humans by the bite of infected deer ticks." This article includes detailed images...
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Centers for Disease Control: Trichinosis
Fact sheet, which is provided for by the Center for Disease Control, concerning trichinosis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Importance of Washing Hands
This site from the Center for Disease Control provides an explanation of why it is important to wash your hands and the consequences if you don't. Also provides step-by-step directions of hand washing.
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Centers for Disease Control: Division of Parasitic Diseases
This database includes life cycles, images, and diagnosis information for several parasites that can infect humans. The search does work better using scientific names.
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Centers for Disease Control: African Trypanosomiasis
The Center for Disease Control offers fact sheets, travel information, and reports on the African sleeping sickness, Trypanosomiasis.
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Centers for Disease Control: Schistosomiasis
Fact sheet on schistosomiasis. Includes common questions and references.
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Centers for Disease Control: The Tuskegee Timeline
What was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study? Find out more about this experimental study when you visit this site. The CDC compiled a timeline outlining the events of this tragedy.
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Centers for Disease Control: Tourette Syndrome
Information about Tourette's Syndrome. Topics covered include what it is, the prevalence, and how to support someone with TS.
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Centers for Disease Control: Hookworm
General information about hookworms, including causal agents, life cycle, geographic distribution clinical features, laboratory diagnosis, and treatment.
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Centers for Disease Control: Work Related Hearing Loss
Information is provided on this site about work-related hearing loss.
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Centers for Disease Control: Trichinellosis
Information is provided about Trichinellosis, such as causes, features, diagnosis and treatment.