Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) is a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services based in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia. It works to protect public health and safety by providing information to enhance health decisions, and it promotes health through partnerships with state health departments and other organizations. The CDC focuses national attention on developing and applying disease prevention and control (especially infectious diseases), environmental health, occupational safety and health, health promotion, prevention and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

In the 2004-2007 television series The 4400, the CDC played a minor role in the evolution of the program. A CDC scientist, Diana Skouris, was asked to cooperate with the National Threat Assessment Command in studying and investigating the circumstances surrounding the return of 4,400 abductees - all of whom were originally taken from different points in time.

In the 2007 film The Invasion, CDC agent Tucker Kaufman unwittingly inoculated dozens of people with a communicable space borne pathogen that subverted their conscious mind, creating a hive mentality among the infected.