Category: contagion

Disaster Movies: Lessons Learned

By Regina Quadir With the Oscars just 3 days away, movies have been on our mind lately here at CDC’s Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response. Especially disaster movies. They come in all kinds of flavors: deadly viruses, tornadoes, earthquakes, and, yes, even snakes on a plane. Read More >

February 23, 2012 by Blog Administrator41 Comments

Disease Investigation, General, preparedness

contagion, disaster movies, Independence Day, lessons learned, movies, preparedness, Twister

Real-life Contagion: Part 2

By Tyler M. Sharp, PhD Before we left off in Part 1 I had just gotten on a boat to visit a small atoll in the Marshall Islands affected by the dengue outbreak… A few days earlier we had identified a small cluster of cases on Arno, a small atoll about 30 miles from Majuro. I Read More >

December 30, 2011 by 6 Comments

Disease Investigation, General, response, Vectorborne

contagion, dengue fever, disease, Marshall Islands, mosquito, outbreak