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A national network of public health laboratories prevents an estimated 270,000 cases of food poisoning and saves half a billion dollars every year, according to a study released today.

Mosquitoes linked to Zika virus not likely in areas above 6,500 feet (2,000 meters)

Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Updates on Zika response efforts

CDC Director Tom Frieden traveled to Puerto Rico March 7-9 to assess firsthand CDC's support for the Zika response. He will provide an assessment of the situation in Puerto Rico and an update on CDC's Zika response efforts.

CDC is working with other public health officials to monitor for ongoing Zika virus? transmission. Today, CDC added the following destination to the Zika virus travel notices: New Caledonia.

The Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer (1975-2012) shows that death rates continued to decline for all cancers combined, as well as for most cancer sites for men and women of all major racial and ethnic populations.

CDC is hosting a one-day Zika Action Plan Summit as the nation faces likely local mosquito-borne transmission of Zika virus in some places in the continental United States.

Transcript for CDC Telebriefing: Making Health Care Safer - Protect patients from antibiotic resistance - Transcript

CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, will travel to Puerto Rico March 7-9 to assess first-hand CDC's support for the Zika response.

CDC's latest Vital Signs report urges healthcare workers to use a combination of infection control recommendations to better protect patients from healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and antibiotic resistance.