The CDC's disease prevention efforts include educating the public on how to recognize and avoid contracting common infectious diseases, such as the flu and strep throat.
DISASTERS Hurricane Katrina approaches landfall on the Gulf coast. Very little on land or water was spared by the storm when it struck in 2005. (Image from NOAA) Hurricane Katrina caused devastating personal, social, economic, and cultural losses. This image shows homes destroyed by the storm in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. (Image from
Verisk Maplecroft based the rankings on numerous types of natural disasters ranging from tropical cyclones to flooding, severe weather, wildfires, earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes. Another part of the NHRA atlas is the Socio-economic Resilience Index, which factors in how a country is able to respond to natural disasters.