CDC sends a team of five people to Guinea to collect and review epidemiologic data, meet with partners, and provide risk communication consultation for Ebola.
Bye Bye Ebola song to celebrate the end of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone on November 7, 2015 -although there was a later flare-up-, produced by SMAC. Throughout the Ebola response, social mobilizers frequently used popular music as a…
This educational infographic addresses fear surrounding Ebola in the United States. It provides ten facts about Ebola and how it is and is not spread. For example, the infographic explains that Ebola is not airborne, is not spread by mosquitos, and…
To track the influenza pandemic in the U.S., CDC used a variety of different methods. School absenteeism and school closings, two of the methods used, gave CDC epidemiologist accurate data on some of the effects of the pandemic.
In mid-April 2009, CDC received samples from the first patient with suspected (H1N1)pdm09 from California. Two days later, the California Department of Public Health called to report a second patient. In the early days of the outbreak, CDC's Dr.…