The mission of CDC expanded beyond its original focus on malaria to include sexually transmitted diseases when the Venereal Disease Division of the U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) was transferred to the CDC in 1957.
В 1957 г. подразделение Департамента общественного здоровья, занимавшее контролем за венерологическими инфекциями (Venereal Disease Division), было интегрировано в CDC.