History of CDC

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• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  CDC, an institution synonymous around the world with public health, will be 50 years old on July 1. The Communicable Disease Center was organized in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 1, 1946; its founder, Dr. Joseph W. Mountin, was a visionary public health leader who had high hopes for this small and comparatively insignificant branch of the Public Health Service (PHS). It occupied only one floor of the Volunteer Building on Peachtree Street and had fewer than 400 employees, most of whom were engineers and entomologists. Until the previous day, they had worked for Malaria Control in War Areas, the predecessor of CDC (Figure_1), which had successfully kept the southeastern states malaria-free during World War II and, for approximately 1 year, from murine typhus fever. The new institution would expand its interests to include all communicable Diseases and would be the servant of the states, providing practical help whenever called.
• Subjects:
  CDC--History History, 20th Century Public Health U.S. Government Agencies
• Source:
  MMWR Morbidity Mortal Weekly Rep. 1996 Jun 28;45(25):526-30.
• Series:
  Weekly Report: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  0149-2195 (print) ; 1545-861X (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Name as Subject:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Place as Subject:
  U.S.
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Volume:
  45
• Issue:
  25
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:35a4c877f9f9a81c3edeefe22ab6620b7bf6663080103f950ba36a019803e2b567f213ec946cebea861b29a34ee862dd496cfa428076e1551fbfbfa7abc35339
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/91450/cdc_91450_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
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