Centers For Disease Control and Prevention Timeline - 1970s

1970s

• 1970 - The Communicable Disease Center became the Center for Disease Control.
• 1971 - The National Center for Health Statistics conducted the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, taking a snapshot of the health status of Americans.
• 1972 - Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was brought to public attention.
• 1973 - Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report reported that emissions of lead in residential areas constitute a public health threat, contrary to popular assumption at the time.
• 1974 - CDC planned a major campaign to reverse the downward trend in the number of Americans immunized.
• 1975 - The last victim of variola major smallpox, the more severe form of the disease, was reported.
• 1976 - CDC investigated two outbreaks of a previously unknown deadly hemorrhagic fever, later known as Ebola, in Zaire and Sudan.
• 1977 - Global eradication of smallpox was achieved.
• 1978 - Alcorn County, Mississippi, reported cases of the first outbreak of tuberculosis resistance to previously effective drugs.
• 1979 - First Healthy People report published.