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Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Rebecca “Becky” Gutierrez

HC310

3-1-2-10

Hanna Matatyaho

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The development of the center for disease control was on July 1, 1946 in Atlanta, Georgia. Their main focus was to fight malaria by killing the mosquitoes, which was the whole interest of the CDC during the early years. The company had less the 400 original employees and their key jobs were of entomologist and engineers and even though epidemiologists were scarce in those early years they still managed to conduct disease surveillance and they became the cornerstone of the CDC’s mission. Their were only seven medical officers on staff in 1946 and...