Since CDC’s beginnings as a scientific agency, innovation has been at its core, with CDC professionals inventing tools, procedures, and strategies to improve their own work and to assist other public health professionals. This portion of the exhibit highlights some of CDC’s most creative accomplishments of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
Content Notes:
Hot Labs -- “Don’t Worry:” Packing and Shipping Infectious Materials -- Layers of Protection -- Testing Methods -- On-A-Roll: NHANES – National Snapshots of the Health of Americans -- Just How Much? -- Decades of Data -- MMWR: The Scientific Voice of CDC -- Historic Ledgers -- Know Your Cholesterol: Cholesterol Standardization Program -- CDC’s Cholesterol Reference Method -- What Glows in the Dark: Fluorescent Antibodies -- Tools to Investigate Workplace Health Hazards -- Trapping Mosquitoes: CDC Light Trap -- New Responsibilities Bring New Challenges -- CDC Collaborates with NASA: Moon Mission Quarantine -- Enrichment Modules.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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Water is the essence of life and human dignity. Sufficient, safe, physically accessible, and affordable water is vital for all. Despite great strides ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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This exhibit focuses on CDC’s work in smoking and health. Now readily understood as a major health risk, smoking was not always viewed this way. In ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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Each year, about 1 in 6 people in the U.S. gets sick from eating contaminated food. The 1,000 or more reported outbreaks that happen each year reveal ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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Today, chronic diseases such as heart disease and obesity are the leading cause of death and disability in the U.S., and the primary drivers of the na...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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On display is a powerful microscope: the electron microscope. This microscope, the TEM 410 Philips model, was made in the Netherlands and used in CDC ...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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In addition to the discovery of the Ebola Fever and Legionnaires’ Disease pathogens, another major disease event in 1976 was Swine flu. Earlier that...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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In the 1960s, CDC and its partners began to fight other vaccine-preventable diseases in addition to polio, such as rubella (German measles), diphtheri...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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In the 1960s, another U.S. Public Health Service program transferred to CDC; this one focused on preventing tuberculosis (TB). TB is an infectious dis...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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On June 5, 1981, CDC published a report in the MMWR describing requests for the drug pentamidine to treat a deadly disease called Pneumocystis carinii...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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This section of The Story of CDC exhibit addresses emergency response. CDC has played a key role in preparing the United States for public health thre...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). David J. Sencer CDC Museum.
March 16, 2021 | Story of CDC
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While the U.S. was consumed with the mystery disease in Pennsylvania, a new challenge would soon emerge overseas. In October 1976, hemorrhagic fever e...
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