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Tuesday, September 10, 2002Over the past year, the C.D.C. has funneled $914 million from its parent agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, to state and local health departments, nearly 10 times as much as the agency said it disbursed the year before. The money is being used to upgrade disease surveillance systems, improve communication with local doctors and hospitals and bolster the ability of a network of laboratories throughout the country to detect the microbes considered most likely to be used in a bioterrorist attack. The fruits of this spending aren’t yet visible in our community. I still have the same memo I got about two weeks after the anthrax attacks with phone numbers to call if I have a suspicious case. The last newsletter from our public health department was about the same old stuff - teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, and WIC, influenza vaccines, with no mention at all of bioterror. Each of those topics are important services our health department provides to people with very little money, but it seems odd that they haven’t even mentioned bioterror preparedness. It deserves at least a little blurb in this day and age. posted by Sydney on 9/10/2002 06:07:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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