May is National Hepatitis Awareness Month, and CDC’s Division of Viral Hepatitis is leading a national education initiative called Know More Hepatitis. The initiative aims to decrease the burden of chronic viral hepatitis by increasing awareness about this…
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World Meningitis Day is April 24, 2013
Wednesday, April 24, 2013 will mark the fifth anniversary of World Meningitis Day with the focus being to promote the importance of vaccinations in preventing the most deadly forms of the disease and to support those dealing with the consequences…
World TB Day is March 24, 2013
World Tuberculosis Day, annually held on March 24, marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch detected the cause of tuberculosis, the TB bacillus. This was a first step towards diagnosing and curing tuberculosis. Tuberculosis, or TB, is an…
Disease Control & Prevention
Communicable Disease Communicable diseases, sometimes called infectious diseases, are illnesses caused by organisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites. Sometimes the illness is not due to the organism itself, but rather a toxin that the organism produces after it…
