to warrant appropriate remedial action." 1965 – New surveillance systems added to the original National Surveillance Program of 1952 included measles, shigellosis, tetanus, and trichinosis. 1966 – CDC announced a national measles eradication campaign at the American Public Health Association meeting. 1967 – The Foreign Quarantine Service, one of the oldest and most prestigious units of the Public Health Service, joined CDC. 1968 – CDC investigated an unidentified, highly infectious respiratory disease in Pontiac, Michigan, later identified as Legionellosis (also known by its two forms, Legionnaires' disease and Pontiac fever). 1969 – CDC constructed a "biocontainment lab" to protect scientists while they work with deadly and infectious pathogens. 1970s 1970 – The Communicable Disease Center became the Center for Disease Control. 1971 – The National Center for Health Statistics conducted the first National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, taking a snapshot of the health status of Americans. 1972 – Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was brought to public attention. 1973 – The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is transferred into CDC. It had been created in its present form through the December 29, 1970 Occupational Safety and Health Act, and its direct predecessor organization, the Division of Industrial Hygiene, dated back to 1914. 1973 – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) reported that emissions of lead in residential areas constitute a public health threat, contrary to popular assumption at the time. 1974 – CDC planned a major campaign to reverse the downward trend in the number of Americans immunized. 1975 – The last victim of variola major smallpox, the more severe form of the disease, was reported. 1976 – CDC investigated two outbreaks of a previously unknown deadly hemorrhagic fever, later known as Ebola, in Zaire and Sudan. 1977 – Global eradication of smallpox was achieved. 1978 – Alcorn County, Mississippi, reported cases of the first outbreak of tuberculosis resistance to previously effective drugs. 1979 – First Healthy People report published. 1980s 1980 – Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published the first report on the newly recognized toxic shock syndrome, an illness associated with tampon use. 1981 – The first diagnosis of the fatal disease later known as AIDS was described in the June 5, 1981, issue of MMWR. 1982 – CDC advised of the possible risk of Reye syndrome associated with the use of aspirin by children with chickenpox and flu-like symptoms.