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
Of the 102 attacks in the Gulf Coast region, 66.7 percent of them occurred off of the Texas coast. Also, men have been attacked by sharks four times more than women in the Gulf of Mexico. One of the incidents in 2011 took place on a beach in Matagorda, Texas. What the database does not say is that he was posing for a Facebook picture when the shark bit him.