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Centers for Disease Control an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, located in Atlanta, Georgia, which serves as a center for the control, prevention and investigation of diseases; abbreviated CDC. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that parents get the vaccine -- which guards against certain strains of human papilloma virus that can cause cervical cancer -- ideally when they're 11 and 12. With >350 liaisons and collaborators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, the Canadian Paediatric Society, the World Health Organization, and others, the 12-member 2004-2006 Committee on Infectious Diseases issued the current edition, which reflects the state of the art at the time of publication and is updated every 3 years. Since reaching an all-time low in 2000, the rate of primary and secondary syphilis has climbed steadily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; it rose by 8% between 2003 and 2004, reaching 2. |
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