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Update: Exertional Hyponatremia, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2005–2020

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4/1/2021
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego Recruits with Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, hydrate after a physical training session at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 12, 2020. The recruits performed multiple exercises at different stations after completing a 400-meter dash. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brooke C. Woods)

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Update: Heat Illness, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2020

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4/1/2021
Fort Jackson, SC. A trainee with 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry Regiment puts his arms in an arm immersion cooling tank during training. The tanks allow Soldiers to rapidly cool by putting their forearms into a tank of ice water. (Photo by Saskia Gabriel)

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Update: Exertional Rhabdomyolysis, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2016–2020

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4/1/2021
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego Recruits with Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, hydrate after a physical training session at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 12, 2020. The recruits performed multiple exercises at different stations after completing a 400-meter dash. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Brooke C. Woods)

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Update: Sexually Transmitted Infections, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012–2020

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3/1/2021
Under a magnification of 1150X, this photomicrograph of a Gram-stained urethral discharge specimen, demonstrated the presence of Gram-negative, intracellular diplococci, which is a finding indicative of the possible presence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae bacteria. Credit: CDC/ Dr. Caldwell

Update: Sexually Transmitted Infections, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2012–2020

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Update: Malaria, U.S. Armed Forces, 2020

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2/1/2021
Spc. Joshua Jones, left, and Pfc. Richard Bower, both preventive medicine specialists, 227th Preventive Medicine Detachment, 62nd Medical Brigade, check an insect trap during a field training exercise on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, June 20. The 227th PMD notionally deployed to Guiria, Venezuela, where a tropical storm caused floods and presented a real world concern for mosquitos, which are known to spawn in stagnant water and cause widespread vector borne illnesses such as malaria, yellow fever and dengue fever. Photo by Sgt. Sarah Enos 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment

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Update: Cold Weather Injuries, Active and Reserve Components, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2015–June 2020

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11/1/2020
Chill factor, improper warm up, and inadequate clothing can contribute to the risk for cold injuries. Experts encourage everyone, whether acclimated to cold weather or not, to protect against cold temperature injuries this winter. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cody Rowe)

Update: Cold Weather Injuries, Active and Reserve Components, U.S. Armed Forces, July 2015–June 2020

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Surveillance Snapshot: Influenza Immunization Among U.S. Armed Forces Healthcare Workers, August 2015–April 2020

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10/1/2020
NORFOLK (Oct. 15, 2019) Lt. Sipriano Marte administers an influenza vaccination to Airman Tyler French in the intensive care unit aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). Kearsarge is underway conducting routine training. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Petty Officer 3rd Class Jacob Vermeulen/Released)

Surveillance Snapshot: Influenza Immunization Among U.S. Armed Forces Healthcare Workers, August 2015–April 2020

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Update: Routine Screening for Antibodies to Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Civilian Applicants for U.S. Military Service and U.S. Armed Forces, Active and Reserve Components, January 2015–June 2020

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9/1/2020
Spc. Jayson Sanchez of the Army Reserve’s 77th Sustainment Brigade receives a blood draw from phlebotomist Nikole Horrell during the mass medical-readiness event hosted Aug. 8-9, 2015 by the Army Reserve’s 99th Regional Support Command at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., in an effort to increase Soldier readiness throughout the northeastern United States. More than 300 Army Reserve and Army National Guard Soldiers had the opportunity to take care of their Periodic Health Assessments, dental exams, vision screenings, HIV blood draws, immunizations, hearing tests, LOD processing and temporary/permanent profiles during the event. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Salvatore Ottaviano, 99th Readiness Division)

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Navy entomologist conducts vector surveillance throughout Asia

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6/25/2020
Soldier crouching down outside looking at the ground

The goal is to help prevent diseases outbreaks in the military population.

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Army entomologist searches for diseases in Africa

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6/22/2020
Soldier wearing gloves testing various substances

An entomologist studies insects and pests in order to monitor their behavior and patterns to prevent diseases among the military population.

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Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, Non-service Member Beneficiaries of the Military Health System, 2019

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5/1/2020
A Navy doctor examines a young patient. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Michael O’Day/Released)

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Surveillance Snapshot: Illness and Injury Burdens, Reserve Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019

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5/1/2020
Soldiers from each of the United States Army’s three components partnered together to conduct a training exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington, in January 2020. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Capt. Gurney F. Pearsall III)

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Absolute and Relative Morbidity Burdens Attributable to Various Illnesses and Injuries, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019

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5/1/2020
A physician examines and educates a patient. (U.S. Navy photo by Jacob Sippel, Naval Hospital Jacksonville/Released)

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Ambulatory Visits, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019

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5/1/2020
A U.S. naval officer listens through his stethoscope to hear his patient’s lungs at Camp Schwab in Okinawa, Japan in 2018. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Cameron Parks)

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Hospitalizations, Active Component, U.S. Armed Forces, 2019

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5/1/2020
Service members assigned to Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System 19 prepare medical supplies aboard Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Cardigan Bay during exercise Azraq Serpent 18. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kevin J. Steinberg)

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