The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health institute of the United States. The goal of the CDC is to protect health and safety through controlling and preventing disease in the US and around the world.

The CDC is currently dealing with several public health concerns. One issue for the CDC is antibiotic resistance. Doctors are encountering bacteria that cannot be killed with current drug therapies. The CDC is tracking antibiotic resistance in the United States and developing new antibiotics.

The CDC is also promoting the use of vaccines to combat disease and even cancer. They want to increase the number of people protected by the HPV vaccine and to continue to protect people with safe vaccines. Individual vaccinations promote herd immunity for the entire community.

The CDC is especially concerned that residents take action to prevent the flu this season. The flu is especially virulent this winter, causing many hospitalizations. The CDC highly recommends taking three actions. First, get a flu vaccine. Second, take everyday preventive actions, such as washing your hands and covering your nose and mouth with your arm when you sneeze. Third, take any antiviral drugs your doctor may prescribe.
Which public health issues are identified in the article? Check all that apply. A. antibiotic resistance
B. flu prevention
C. the need for vaccinations
D. the need for safe, clean water
E. threats from disease in other countries
F. the effects of pollution on asthma rates

Read the passage, then answer the question that follows. no one could have seen it at the time, but the invention of beet sugar was not just a challenge to cane. it was a hint—just a glimpse, like a twist that comes about two thirds of the way through a movie—that the end of the age of sugar was in sight. for beet sugar showed that in order to create that perfect sweetness you did not need slaves, you did not need plantations, in fact you did not even need cane. beet sugar was a foreshadowing of what we have today: the age of science, in which sweetness is a product of chemistry, not whips. in 1854 only 11 percent of world sugar production came from beets. by 1899 the percentage had risen to about 65 percent. and beet sugar was just the first challenge to cane. by 1879 chemists discovered saccharine—a laboratory-created substance that is several hundred times sweeter than natural sugar. today the sweeteners used in the foods you eat may come from corn (high-fructose corn syrup), from fruit (fructose), or directly from the lab (for example, aspartame, invented in 1965, or sucralose—splenda—created in 1976). brazil is the land that imported more africans than any other to work on sugar plantations, and in brazil the soil is still perfect for sugar. cane grows in brazil today, but not always for sugar. instead, cane is often used to create ethanol, much as corn farmers in america now convert their harvest into fuel. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how does this passage support the claim that sugar was tied to the struggle for freedom? it shows that the invention of beet sugar created competition for cane sugar. it shows that technology had a role in changing how we sweeten our foods. it shows that the beet sugar trade provided jobs for formerly enslaved workers. it shows that sweeteners did not need to be the product of sugar plantations and slavery.