Drug overdose death rates now higher in rural areas than in urban areas

Original title: “CDC Reports Rising Rates of Drug Overdose Deaths in Rural Areas - Press Release”

This update includes information that has become available since the August 2016 release of the previous guidance.

Original title: “CDC updates guidance for infants born to mothers with possible Zika virus infection during pregnancy - Press Release”

Suicide rates for rural counties consistently higher than urban counties from 2001-2015

Original title: “Americans in rural areas more likely to die by suicide - Press Release”

Last week, the Partnership for Public Service named CDC's Tedd V. Ellerbrock, M.D., the 2017 winner of the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal for Career Achievement in recognition of the vital role he has played in building, expanding, and improving the U.S.-led program that provides HIV treatment to more than 11 million people around the world.

Original title: “CDC HIV Expert Wins Samuel J. Heyman Award for Career Achievement - Media Statement”

Transcript of teleconference

Original title: “Vital Signs: Teleconference on Obesity and Cancer - Transcript”

Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of 13 types of cancer. These cancers account for about 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States in 2014.

Original title: “Cancer and Obesity - Digital Press Kit”

Overweight and obesity are associated with increased risk of 13 types of cancer. These cancers account for about 40 percent of all cancers diagnosed in the United States in 2014

Original title: “Cancers Associated with Overweight and Obesity Make up 40 percent of Cancers Diagnosed in the United States - Press Release”

Overweight and obesity are associated with at least 13 different types of cancer. According to the latest CDC Vital Signs report, cancers associated with overweight and obesity accounted for 40 percent of cancers diagnosed in the U.S. in 2014. About 2 in 3 of these cancers are in adults 50- to 74-years-old.

Original title: “CDC Telebriefing: New Vital Signs Report - Why is the overall cancer rate declining, while cancer rates associated with overweight and obesity are on the rise? - Media Advisory”

CDC is deactivating its emergency response for Zika virus (Zika) to transition efforts to normal program operations on September 29, 2017.

Original title: “CDC Is Deactivating the Emergency Operations Center for the Zika Response - Press Release”

Adults with asthma are at increased risk for pneumococcal disease, yet according to a new CDC study published today in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine,

Original title: “Just Over Half of Adults with Work-Related Asthma Report Having Received a Pneumococcal Vaccine - Press Release”

More than two million cases of chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis were reported in the United States in 2016, the highest number ever, according to the annual Sexually Transmitted Disease Surveillance Report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Original title: “STDs at record high, indicating urgent need for prevention - Press Release”

Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is launching Rx Awareness, a powerful communication campaign featuring real-life accounts of people recovering from opioid use disorder and people who have lost loved ones to prescription opioid overdose.

Original title: “CDC launches campaign to help states fight prescription opioid epidemic - Press Release”

Adult motor vehicle drivers and passengers in America's most rural counties had motor-vehicle death rates 3 to 10 times higher than those in the most urban counties

Original title: “Rural Americans less likely to wear seat belts, more likely to die in crashes - Press Release”

How does CDC fulfill its mission to keep America safe from health threats? The first-ever special supplement to CDC's Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) journal details progress made in preventing, detecting, and responding to disease threats around the world.

Original title: “Why Global Health Security Is Essential to U.S. National Security - Press Release”

SARS in 2003. Influenza in 2009. Ebola in 2014. Zika in 2015. In the fight against infectious diseases, no nation can stand alone. In today's interconnected world, a health threat anywhere is a threat everywhere: an outbreak in a remote village can spread to major cities on all six continents in less than 36 hours.

Original title: “Sustaining Global Health Security is Critical to Protecting America's National Security”

Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers helps parents interact positively with children. It provides proven answers to common challenges so moms, dads, and caregivers can help two- to four-year-olds grow up happy and healthy.

Original title: “Essentials for Parenting Toddlers and Preschoolers”

Practical information for affected communities, displaced people, and responders

Original title: “CDC Hurricane Support - Press Release”

People who consumed raw milk or raw milk products from one Texas dairy should contact their health care provider immediately, warn health investigators from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

Original title: “CDC and Texas Health Officials Warn About Illness Linked to Raw Milk from Texas Dairy - Press Release”

Hurricanes can cause dangerous and destructive high winds, flooding, heavy rain, and storm surges. Keep your family safe after a hurricane has made landfall.

Original title: “Stay Safe after Hurricanes, Flooding - Media Advisory”

CDC's Emergency Operations Center (EOC) is now activated to bring together CDC staff to work efficiently in responding to public health needs in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey and to deploy resources and personnel as requested.

Original title: “CDC Emergency Operations Center activates to support response to Hurricane Harvey - Media Statement”