Helping Your Child Cope

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How parents and caregivers can help children cope with a disaster

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Week in Review

Helping Your Child Cope

Disasters are stressful events that can cause substantial harm to communities and families. After a disaster, children may develop symptoms of anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Mental health plays an important role in physical health, school performance, behavior, and long-term quality of life.

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Cancer and Men

Men have higher rates of getting and dying from cancer than women. You can lower your chance of getting certain kinds of cancer.

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Sickle Cell Summer Camp Summer camp can positively affect any child’s mental and physical health, but perhaps even more so if the child lives with a chronic medical condition such as sickle cell disease (SCD). For these children, the summer camp experience can provide support and education and reduce the social isolation so often experienced by those with a challenging health condition. Benefits of camp >

Preventing Swine Flu

Pigs can be infected with their own influenza viruses (called swine influenza) that are usually different from human flu viruses. While rare, influenza can spread from pigs to people and from people to pigs. When people get swine flu viruses, it’s usually after contact with pigs. This has happened in different settings, including fairs.

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Disaster Prep for Pets Emergencies come in many forms: fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, floods, violent storms and even terrorism. In the event of extreme weather or a disaster, would you know what to do to protect your pet? Leaving pets out of evacuation plans can put pets, pet owners, and first responders in danger. Be prepared >

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CDC COVID-19 Responder Stories

Read more about Jonny Andia

CDC behavioral scientist Jonny Andia had just finished a 14-day quarantine after a field assignment when he was asked to consider deploying again. He would have to leave in three days. Having just returned from a month-long COVID-19 outbreak investigation at a meat processing plant in Wisconsin, “I had no intention of doing another deployment,” he says. He had been looking forward to spending time back with his family, but “something about the call caught my attention.”