Mobile Apps

2016 Yellow Book

CDC Health Information for International Travel (commonly called the Yellow Book) is published every two years by CDC as a reference for those who advise international travelers about health risks. The Yellow Book is written primarily for health professionals, although others will find it useful.

Key Features

• The definitive resource for healthcare providers and individuals seeking consultation in advance of international travel
• Accessible content conveyed in easy-to-understand format, including maps

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

The Laboratory Response Network Rule-Out and Refer

The Laboratory Response Network Rule-Out and Refer app makes it easy for sentinel labs, such as clinics, hospitals, and public health agencies, to access important information regarding six potential bioterrorism agents including Bacillus anthracis, Brucella species, Yersinia pestis, Francisella tularensis, Burkholderia pseudomallei, and Burkholderia mallei. This app provides information regarding biosafety, shipping, and select agent compliance associated with each pathogen to ensure that the information you need is at your fingertips! The app also aids sentinel labs by providing a tool in the “rule-out and refer” decision with easy to use flowcharts detailing the identification steps. Agent specific images and video examples guide the user in making accurate and efficient decisions.

Features Include:

• Easy to use identification flowcharts for 6 bioterrorism agents with reference link to the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) formal procedures
• Links to important information from CDC and Public Health Agency of Canada
• Clear images of colony morphology and gram staining of the agents
• Videos demonstrating biochemical tests such as catalase, indole, and oxidase
• Important biosafety information
• A video on how to work in a biosafety cabinet
• Packaging and shipping information for Category A and B agents
• Select agent regulation information and links

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

Healthy Swimming

Getting ready to go swimming or working at the pool? Don’t leave home without CDC’s Healthy Swimming app!
Help keep yourself and your family healthy and safe this summer swim season. If you are a pool inspector, operator or lifeguard, have the latest information at your fingertips to answer patron questions. We all share the water we play and swim in. Learn about the germs that we all bring into the places we swim, how they could make you and others sick, and how you can take a few easy and effective steps to help protect yourself and others

This app will tell you:

• How we benefit from swimming. Did you know swimming can improve your health—and your mood?
• Where we swim. Did you know germs could be lurking anywhere you swim or play in the water-even in the pool down the street?
• What's in the water. Did you know chlorine and other disinfectants don’t kill germs instantly?
• How to stay healthy and safe. Healthy and safe swimming is easy with CDC's simple tips!

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

Solve the Outbreak

Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to get clues and analyze data to solve the outbreak and save lives! In this fun app, you get to be the Disease Detective.

Do you quarantine the village? Interview people who are sick? Run more lab tests? The better your answers, the higher your score – and the quicker you’ll climb the ranks to become a decorated Disease Detective. In level 1, you’ll start out as a Trainee and can earn badges by solving scenarios, with the goal of earning the top rank: Disease Detective.

Unlock Level 2 by mastering all 12 outbreaks. Then earn honors by solving new and more challenging scenarios. Earn recognitions like Surveillance Honors and Treatment Honors.

New outbreaks happen every day, and CDC's Disease Detectives are on the front lines, working 24/7 to save lives and protect people. When a new outbreak happens, Disease Detectives are sent in to figure out how the outbreak started before it spreads further.

In this app:

• Learn about diseases and outbreaks in an engaging way
• See how CDC's Disease Detectives save lives around the world
• Post your scores on Facebook or Twitter and challenge your friends to play!

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

Tickborne Diseases

This application has been designed as a way for health care providers to access concise, comprehensive, and updated information about the prevention, identification, and treatment of tickborne diseases. The application allows the user to easily view content directly from an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. This application is a companion to the printed manual, Tickborne Diseases of the United States: A Reference Guide for Health Care Providers.

Key Features

• Tick identification with vivid photos and illustrations
• Summarized information about signs and symptoms of the most common tickborne diseases
• Information about diagnostic tests and supporting lab tests
• Treatment table summaries
• Live links to additional journal articles and resources
• Prevention and prophylaxis recommendations

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

TravWell

CDC’s TravWell app helps you plan for safe and healthy international travel. Build a trip to get destination-specific vaccine recommendations, a checklist of what you need to do to prepare for travel, and a customizable healthy travel packing list. The app also lets you store travel documents, keep a record of your medications and immunizations, and set reminders to get vaccine booster doses or take medicines while you’re traveling.

Key Features

• Authoritative recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• During-travel features available offline (no data connection needed)
• Fully customizable to do list and packing list
• Emergency services phone numbers for every destination
• Easy to use and fun

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.

Can I Eat This?

Montezuma’s revenge, Delhi belly, or travelers’ diarrhea—whatever you call it, it can ruin your international trip. Help prevent travelers’ diarrhea by using CDC’s Can I Eat This? app. Select the country you’re in and answer a few simple questions about what you’re thinking about eating or drinking, and Can I Eat This? will tell you whether it’s likely to be safe. With Can I Eat This?, you can be more confident that your food and drink choices won’t make you spend your international trip in the bathroom.

Key Features

• Authoritative recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Access recommendations offline (no data connection needed)
• Easy to use and fun

To give feedback about this app, contact CDC-INFO.