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US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Online. Available HTTP (accessed 1 April 2003). 

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center... 

Finally, it is worth repeating the statement of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, issued in 1992 but still valid (17) The suggestion that HIV, the AIDS virus, originated as a result of inadvertent inoculation of an HIV-like virus present in monkey kidney cell cultures used to prepare polio vaccine is one of a number of unsubstantiated hypotheses. The weight of scientific evidence does not support this idea and there is no more reason to believe this hypothesis than many other which have been considered and rejected on scientific grounds. ... 

USCDC (2003) Second National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals. Department of Health and Human Services, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. NCEH Publication Number 02-0716. 

Noise-induced hearing loss is a problem of epidemic proportion in modern society, and is currently the second most common form of hearing impairment in the United States (after age-related hearing loss). Although it is difficult to accurately assess the extent of the problem, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has estimated that 12.5% of US children aged 6-19 years have some form of noise-induced hearing loss in one or both ears, and a 1990 Consensus Statement issued by the US National Institutes of Health estimated that over one-third of the 28 million people in the United States suffering from... 

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Environmental Health (US CDCP) (2008a). National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), Vol. 2008. 

Worldwide, the prevalence of diabetes is increasing, with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention referring to the condition as. . the epidemic of our times . According to the World Health Organization, the present number of diabetics worldwide is 135 million, and this is expected to increase to 300 million by 2025. 

According to the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2009 more than 25% of adults, 18 years and older, have experienced low back pain for 24 h or longer [41]. The treatment for chronic pain that does not respond well to drug therapy using implantable electrical neurostimulator devices is growing. 

Today, smallpox virus is known to exist for certain in two places in stores maintained by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia and at Vector, a biological research laboratory in Novosibirsk, Russia. The original WHO plan called for both the United States and Russia to destroy these stocks of virus, but the plan, from its inception, was controversial. Fears that other nations may have secret stockpiles of the disease prompted WHO to postpone this action, until at least 2002, since samples of smallpox might be needed for research in the event of an attack or outbreak. Given the current concern with biological warfare, and in particular with the... 

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