Features from this Week: Food Safety, Share Your Family History, Strep Throat, and More!

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CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Week in Review

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Food Safety and Eating Out

Going out to eat? Look for a restaurant that keeps food safety on the menu. Here are tips to stay healthy and protect yourself from food poisoning while dining out.

Share Your Family History

Take time to collect information about your family health history of heart disease and share this information with your doctor and other family members. Your doctor can help you take steps to lower your chances of getting heart disease.


Lower your chances of getting heart disease >

Strep Throat

Worried your sore throat may be strep throat? Strep throat is a common type of sore throat in children, but it’s not very common in adults. Doctors can do a quick test to see if a sore throat is strep throat. If so, antibiotics can help you feel better faster and prevent spreading it to others.
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Get Seizure Smart!

About 1 out of 10 people may have a seizure in their lifetime. Would you know how to help someone during or after a seizure?


Steps to help someone having a seizure >

National ALS Biorepository

Learn how ALS researchers from around the world can access and use ALS Biorepository samples as a valuable resource in their fight to identify the causes of ALS.

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Disease of the Week

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Image of the Week

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COVID-19

Situation Summary


CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory disease, recently named COVID-19.


Learn more on this outbreak >

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