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• CDC Expands Efforts in Haiti Earthquake Response
  While CDC expands its public health response to the devastating earthquake in Haiti, we are ever mindful of the extraordinary loss of life and the pain and suffering of an entire nation.
  
  Published: January 19, 2010
• Folic Acid: Reaching Out to Women of Childbearing Age
  Folic acid is a B vitamin that can help reduce a woman's chance of having a pregnancy affected by a serious birth defect of the brain or spine, called neural tube defects (NTDs). NCBDDD has focused many of its education and outreach projects on increasing folic acid awareness, knowledge, and consumption among Latinas of childbearing age.
  
  Published: January 6, 2010
• Influenza Roundtable Online Videos on CDC-TV
  There are many questions people have about seasonal and the 2009 H1N1 flu. CDC has developed several broadcast quality videos that focus on some of the different topics for which the public is seeking information such as warning signs of the flu, preventing its spread and taking antiviral medications.
  
  Published: November 16, 2009

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