Centers for Disease Control

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (or CDC) are a United States federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services headquartered in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, in Greater Atlanta.[1][2][3] 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.

In fiction
The CDC played a role in the final two episodes of season one of the AMC series The Walking Dead. In episode 5, "Wildfire", the survivors of the zombie outbreak, manage to fight their way to the CDC office in Atlanta. They found dozens of bodies littered all over the ground and only one surviving scientist, Doctor Edwin Jenner. Jennfer tried to develop a means of staving off the infection, but was forced to watch his own wife, Candace, die horribly before his eyes. Jennfer, slightly crazed by the event, allowed the survivors to take shelter inside the offices. By the following episode however, a safety protocol was initiated that set the entire facility on self destruct. The survivors managed to escape the building in time, but Doctor Jenner, and one survivor named Jacqui elected to stay behind. (Walking Dead: Wildfire; Walking Dead: TS-19)