Political Quotes

“on July 1, 1996, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will celebrate its 50th anniversary. Mr. President, in the United States and around the world, the words ``Centers for Disease Control and Prevention'' are synonymous with public health. What started in 1946 as a small and comparatively insignificant branch of the Public Health Service, established to prevent the spread of malaria, is today one of the most highly regarded agencies in the Federal Government--an agency whose interests include every communicable disease known to man, and whose mission is to protect the public health by providing practical help whenever and wherever it is called upon to do so. Over the years, the CDC has become more than just a center for disease control. As early as the 1950's, it became a center of epidemiology, providing surveillance of known diseases and ferreting out the cause of new ones wherever they occurred. From influenza, polio, tuberculosis, and smallpox in the United States to, more recently, Ebola fever in Zaire, the CDC has answered SOS calls from all over the world, and become not only a global leader in public health, but the Nation's and the world's response team for a wide range of health emergencies. In 1992, it expanded its mission even further--from investigating and controlling disease to preventing it.”