Atlanta, GA – Over the past two years, terms like “epidemic” and “public health” are dominating headlines, sometimes more than mundane things like “politics”, “war” and more important things, like “sports scores.” Sometimes left for the backwater of public thought, health emergencies and oddities are now finding themselves at the forefront of front-line/headline news.
Thus, those entities that deal with major issues related to health, especially epidemics and outbreaks find themselves at the center of attention. Such is the case with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA. Their facilities within the Atlanta urban/suburban area (which the way that city continues to grow will soon encompass the entire northern half of the state of Georgia, which may make the city of Atlanta one of the most virulent outbreaks out there, but we digress) are filled with the top scientific and medial minds researching some of the most unusual and virulent outbreaks known to man.