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You can have health-related text messages delivered to your cell phone from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Signing up now will put you into their three-month pilot program. That means you’d receive three text messages a week until the end of the pilot program in December.
The text messages will keep you up to speed on H1N1 news, as well as other public health emergencies, health tips and hurricane preparedness. Some of the tips will focus on preventing illness.
An advantage of signing up for CDC health text messages is that you’ll be quickly alerted to the latest, accurate and credible health information. You can also share the messages with friends and co-workers.
While CDC doesn’t charge for the text message service, you will be responsible for any texting fees from your service provider. The CDC explains that to sign up, you text HEALTH to 87000. To opt out of the texting program at any time, you reply with HEALTH QUIT.
Learn more about the pilot texting program with at Mobile at CDC.
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