It became the National Communicable Disease Center (NCDC) effective July 1, 1967, and the Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 24, 1970. At the end of the Public Health Service reorganizations of 1966–1973, it was promoted to being a principal operating agency of PHS. It was renamed the Centers for Disease Control effective October 14, 1980.
- US$11.1 billion (FY18)
- July 1, 1946; 74 years ago
- 10,899 (2015)
- United States Department of Health and Human Services
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