Heat-Related Deaths
Heat-related illnesses can occur when high ambient temperatures overcome the body's natural ability to dissipate heat ...more
Aflatoxicosis
in Kenya
Aflatoxin is a fungal toxin that contaminates maize and other types of crops during production, harvest, storage or processing ...more
Chemical
Emergencies
Specific chemical agents, information for professionals and general public ...more
About the Program
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Health Studies
Program investigates the human health effects of exposure to
environmental hazards ranging from chemical pollutants to natural,
technologic, or terrorist disasters. The results are used to develop,
implement, and evaluate strategies for preventing or reducing harmful
exposures ...more
Chemicals
The release of a chemical weapon of mass destruction (WMD) could result
in hundreds or thousands of casualties, and the source of the release
likely would be obvious to public health officials. However, the source
of an accidental chemical release, or the hidden, intentional
contamination of food or drinking water, would be more difficult to
identify. Various programs at CDC work to detect, respond to, and
prevent human illness caused by a chemical release ...more
Concentrated Animal
Feeding Operations (CAFOs)
Concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) are agricultural
facilities that house and feed a large number of animals in a confined
area for 45 days or more during any 12-month period. CDC is working with
states to define routes of exposure and potential human health effects
from exposures to wastes and residues from confined animal feeding
operations ...more
Extreme Weather Conditions
Provides information on in preparing for, responding to, and recovering
from exposures to severe weather such as extreme heat and cold and to
hazards related to natural disasters ...more
Harmful Algal Blooms
CDC is supporting surveillance programs, epidemiologic studies, and
laboratory research to further define the relation between exposure to
organisms involved in harmful algal blooms, such as Pfiesteria
piscicida, and human illness ...more
Noise
An increasing public health problem, noise can have adverse health
effects such as hearing loss; sleep disturbances; cardiovascular and
psychophysiologic problems; performance reduction; annoyance responses;
and adverse social behaviors ...more
Pesticides
Human exposure to pesticides occurs primarily through dietary residues,
outdoor pesticide exposure (gardening and lawn applications), indoor
pesticide exposure (including tracking in outdoor pesticides),
occupational exposures (pest control applicators and farm workers), and
the use of pesticides on domestic animals, including pets. Exposure to
pesticides that results from natural disasters or terrorism also poses a
threat to public health ...more
U.S.-Mexico Border
Environmental Health Issues
CDC identifies environmental health issues, trains and develops human
resources, and conducts environmental epidemiologic research in the
U.S.-Mexico border area ...more
Water-Related
Environmental Public Health
CDC is working to identify, investigate, and track health hazards
associated with water, measure exposure of people to these hazards, and
prevent health effects from these hazards ...more
National
Environmental Public Health Tracking Program
Ongoing collection, integration, analysis, interpretation, and dissemination
of data on environmental hazards, exposures to those hazards, and health
effects that may be related to the exposures ...more
Radiation
Studies
General radiation facts, public health research, radon research ...more