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Communities across the nation play an important role in leading the way toward healthier families, and the Affordable Care Act helps make prevention an important priority for every community.
Tom Frieden
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CDC is supporting community efforts by establishing competitive grants to support local programs to help individuals and families to get healthy and stay healthy.
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We want people to take responsibility for how healthy they are, and we want to help them live longer, healthier lives.
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When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer.
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Pregnant women who are in places where Zika is spreading should do everything they can to avoid mosquito bites. And we, as a society, need to do everything we can to control Zika. That means learning more about it; that means controlling mosquitoes more effectively. That means achieving a vaccine.
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It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect.
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The Zika virus invades and disrupts the development of the fetal brain, but the effects on the brains of infants and young children are unknown.
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From all the available evidence, the body has an excellent immune response to Zika. Therefore, once you get it once, you will never get it again.
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The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies.
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We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains.
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