Features from this Week: Drug Overdose Crisis, Emergency Response, Sepsis, and more

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America's Drug Overdose Epidemic

America’s drug overdose crisis requires an expansive, evolving, and ongoing response. See data and resources related to the current drug overdose crisis in the United States.

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Every Response is Local

State and local health departments must stand ready to handle many different types of emergencies that threaten the health and safety of families, communities, and the nation. Learn how CDC’s Public Health Emergency Preparedness (PHEP) program helps communities respond to threats.

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Radiation Emergencies Protect yourself, your loved ones, and your pets during a radiation emergency by getting inside, staying inside, and staying tuned. Read More >

Get Ahead of Sepsis

Infections can put you and your family at risk for a life-threatening condition called sepsis.

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Environmental Assessments Food safety investigators can use environmental assessments to improve food safety. Environmental assessments are an important part of outbreak investigations. They can determine how and why germs got into the environment and spread to make people sick, and they provide information that can stop ongoing outbreaks and prevent them in the future.  Read More >

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Ebola Outbreak Responder Stories

Supporting the Laboratory in Uganda Amy Schuh, a laboratory scientist at CDC, is no stranger to being deployed, so when the opportunity arose for her to go to Uganda a second time to support the Ebola outbreak, she jumped at the chance because working in the field is one of her favorite things. More >

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