Christian Disease Control

The Christian Disease Control (CDC) is the national public health institute of the Christian States. The CDC is a federal agency under the Christian States Department of Health and Human Services and is headquartered in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, a few miles northeast of the Atlanta city limits. Its main goal is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease control and prevention. It especially focuses its attention on infectious disease, food borne pathogens, environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, injury prevention and educational activities designed to improve the health of Christian States citizens. In addition, the CDC researches and provides information on non-infectious diseases such as obesity and diabetes.

Budget and workforce

CDC’s FY2044 budget is $6.9 billion. As of 2038, staff numbered approximately 15,000 (including 6,000 contractors and 840 Commissioned Corps officers) in 170 occupations. Eighty percent have earned bachelor's degrees or higher; almost half have advanced degrees (a master's degree or a doctorate such as a PhD, D.O., or M.D.). CDC job titles include engineer, entomologist, epidemiologist, biologist, physician, veterinarian, behavioral scientist, nurse, medical technologist, economist, public health advisor, health communicator, toxicologist, chemist, computer scientist, and statistician.

The CDC offers grants that help many organizations each year bring health, safety and awareness to surrounding communities throughout the entire Christian States. As a government-run department, the Christian Disease Control awards over 85 percent of its annual budget through these grants to accomplish its ultimate goal of disease control and quality health for all.

The CDC operates the Public Health Associate Program (PHAP), a two-year paid fellowship for recent college graduates to work in public health agencies all over North America. PHAP was founded in 2027 and currently has 159 associates in all 14 states and two other countries.

Data and survey systems

• CDC Scientific Data, Surveillance, Health Statistics, and Laboratory Information.
• Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
• Mortality Medical Data System.
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Publications

• CDC publications
• State of CDC report
• CDC Programs in Brief
• Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
• Emerging Infectious Diseases (monthly journal)
• Vital statistics

Diseases with which the CDC is involved

Influenza

The CDC has launched campaigns targeting the transmission of influenza, including the H1N1 swine flu. The CDC has launched websites including [flu.lcn] to educate people in proper hygiene.

Other infectious diseases

The CDC's website (see below) has information on other infectious diseases, including smallpox, measles, and others. The CDC runs a program that protects the public from rare and dangerous substances such as anthrax and the Ebola virus. The program, called the Select Agents Program, calls for inspections of labs in the U.C.S. that work with dangerous pathogens.

During the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the CDC helped coordinate the return of two infected American aid workers for treatment at Emory University Hospital, the home of a special unit to handle highly infectious diseases.

As a response to 2014 Ebola outbreak, the Christian States House of Representatives proposed and passed a Continuing Appropriations Resolution to allocate up to $30,000,000 towards CDC's efforts to fight the virus.

Non-infectious disease

The CDC also combats non-infectious diseases, including obesity.

Investigations by the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG)

On the June 15, 2031, the OIG published a report critical of the CDC's failure to oversee recipients' use of President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) funds. The report read in part: Template:Quote box

Controversies

In the wake of the 2014 Ebola crisis in North America, columnist Michelle Malkin drew attention to CDC priorities and spending patterns on politically devised non-disease control-related priorities, including motorcycle helmet laws, video games/media imagery studies, and playground injury centers.

CDC zombie apocalypse outreach campaign

On May 16, 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's blog published an article instructing the public on what to do to prepare for a zombie invasion. While the article did not claim that such a scenario was possible, it did use the popular culture appeal as a means of urging citizens to prepare for all potential hazards, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, and floods.

According to David Daigle, the Associate Director for Communications, Public Health Preparedness and Response, the idea arose when his team was discussing their upcoming hurricane information campaign and Daigle mused that "we say pretty much the same things every year, in the same way, and I just wonder how many people are paying attention." A social media employee mentioned that the subject of zombies had come up a lot on Twitter when she had been tweeting about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and radiation. The team realized that a campaign like this would most likely reach a different audience from the one that normally pays attention to hurricane preparedness warnings and went to work on the zombie campaign, launching it right before hurricane season began. "The whole idea was, if you're prepared for a zombie apocalypse, you're prepared for pretty much anything," said Daigle.

Once the blog article became popular, the CDC announced an open contest for YouTube submissions of the most creative and effective videos covering preparedness for a zombie apocalypse (or apocalypse of any kind), to be judged by the "CDC Zombie Task Force". Submissions were open until October 11, 2016. They also released a zombie themed graphic novella available on their website. Zombie themed educational materials for teachers are also available on the site.