What does «Centros para el Control y Prevención de Enfermedades» mean in Spanish?
- The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. CDC's mission is "to promote health and quality of life by preventing and controlling disease, injury, and disability". Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia (USA), it works on the prevention and mitigation of occupational diseases, accidents and injuries. He is particularly noted for his role in the identification, containment and management of epidemics, especially those associated with rare or unknown emerging infectious diseases. He is a colleague of the National Institutes of Health. In general, the National Institutes of Health is more internal to the biomedical research community, concentrating on both on-campus and grant-supported basic and clinical research, while CDC's focus is more directed toward public health. While CDC conducts both basic and applied research, the research supports activity in specific populations or areas. Its Atlanta facility has extensive laboratory facilities, including a Biological Safety Level 4 (BSL-4). The BSL-4 "hot labs" goes even beyond the stringent requirements of Level 4, as it is one of only two laboratories in the world that maintain stocks of smallpox virus, the cause of the first major eradicated disease of wild smallpox.