Give Your Kids a Healthy and Active Summer

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Week in Review

Give Your Kids a Healthy and Active Summer

Parents play a powerful role in helping their children prepare mentally, physically, and emotionally for the upcoming school year. Here are some ways you can give your child a healthy and active summer through activities that help them be safe, healthy, engaged, supported, and challenged.

Keep kids engaged >

Fragile X Syndrome

Signs and symptoms of FXS include:

• Developmental delays (not sitting, walking, or talking at the same time as other children the same age);
• Learning disabilities (trouble learning new skills); and
• Social and behavior problems (such as not making eye contact, anxiety (fear, worry), trouble paying attention, hand flapping, acting and speaking without thinking, and being very active).

Five things you may not know >

Environmental Health When your environment is safe and healthy, you are more likely to stay healthy. But when your environment exposes you to dangerous events or harmful amounts of toxic substances, your health can be affected.  How the environment affects health >

Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease

Symptoms of hand, foot, and mouth disease usually include fever, mouth sores, and skin rash commonly found on the hands, mouth, and/or feet. Hand, foot, and mouth disease is common in infants and children younger than 5 years old. Most children have mild symptoms for 7 to 10 days.

Wash your hands >

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Causes of Type 2 Diabetes You’ve probably heard the _expression_, “you can’t judge a book by its cover.” In the same way we can’t tell what’s inside a book without reading it, we can’t look at a person and know if they’re at risk of type 2 diabetes. Lower your risk >

Solve Foodborne Outbreaks

Each year in the United States, about 1 in 6 people (or 48 million) get sick from a foodborne illness, also known as food poisoning. Many of these illnesses occur one by one, but some are part of outbreaks. Finding the source of an outbreak is important because the contaminated food could still be in stores, restaurants, or kitchens and could make more people sick. You can help solve these outbreaks by providing vital clues to disease detectives.

Help solve outbreaks >

Disease of the Week Fragile X Syndrome	Image of the Week Sabethes cyaneus mosquito

CDC COVID-19 Responder Stories

What’s easy to confuse with mind reading and allows people to see tissue damage from a distance? Telepathology. That’s when pathologists—scientists who analyze disease damage and causes of death—share images electronically and discuss virtually about what they see. It has enabled Joy Gary, a CDC pathologist, and her colleagues to collaborate without spending time together in a small room where they can’t stay six feet apart. Read more about Joy Gary