Features from this Week: Whooping Cough and Pregnancy, Gynecologic Cancer Awareness, Tips to Help Your Students, and more

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Week in Review

Whooping Cough and Pregnancy

Whooping cough is a serious disease that can be deadly for babies. Unfortunately, babies do not start building their own protection against whooping cough until they get vaccinated at two months old. This leaves babies unprotected in the first months of life when they are at highest risk of getting very sick if they get whooping cough.

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Gynecological Cancer Awareness

Gynecologic cancers are cancers of women’s reproductive organs. The five main types are cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal, and vulvar cancer. All women are at risk for gynecologic cancers. 

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Tips to Help Your Students Teachers have an important role to play in helping children both prepare for and recover after a public health emergency. Public health emergencies and disasters affect millions of children worldwide each year. These emergencies and disasters include natural events (such as severe weather, earthquakes, fires, floods, and tsunamis) and man-made events (such as acts of terrorism).  Help your students > En Español

Sickle Cell Has Many Faces

Did you know that sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of people throughout the world? Although SCD is most common among African Americans in the United States, it can also affect Hispanics and people whose ancestors come from countries in South Asia (such as India), southern Europe (such as Greece and Italy), and the Middle East (such as Saudi Arabia and Lebanon).

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Game Day Food Safety Tips Tackling a game day gathering? Play by these rules and keep the runs on the field. Make sure your game day gathering is memorable for all the right reasons!  6 tips to avoid food poisoning > En Español

Eat Healthier at School

Schools play an important role in shaping lifelong healthy eating habits by offering nutritious meals through federal child nutrition programs. School meals include milk, fruit, vegetables, and whole grains, and they provide key nutrients like calcium and fiber. As students return to school in person or do virtual learning from home, schools may be using a variety of methods to ensure students have access to nutritious meals.

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Disease of the Week Concussions	Image of the Week Nurse delivering flu vaccine

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the U.S.

As of September 18, 2020 In the United States, there have been 6,656,799 confirmed cases of COVID-19 detected through U.S. public health surveillance systems in 50 states and the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. U.S. Cases

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