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Avoid Harmful Algae Harmful algae and cyanobacteria, sometimes called blue-green algae, can produce toxins (poisons) that can make people and animals sick and affect the environment. Learn more about them to keep you, your family, and your pets safe. Read More	Latest Features Cancer and Men Helping Your Child Cope Sickle Cell Data

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You can get swimming-related illnesses if you swallow, have contact with, or breathe in mists or aerosols from water contaminated with germs. The most common symptoms are diarrhea, skin rashes, ear pain, cough or congestion, and eye pain.    >> Learn More

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	This photomicrograph of a Gram-stained urethral discharge specimen, demonstrated the presence of Gram-negative, extracellular diplococci. The presence of intracellular diplococci is diagnostically presumptive in the case of N. gonorrhoeae. >> Learn More

COVID-19 Public Health Emergency

End of the Federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) Declaration CDC is shifting from an emergency response to incorporating COVID-19 activities into routine public health practice. Most tools, like vaccines, treatments, and testing, will remain available. But, some tools, like certain data sources and reporting, will change. >> Learn More

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