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Exclusive: Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu

KFF Health News

“We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email. . “[REDACTED] does not feel that they need MSU Extension to come out,” she added, referring to outreach to farmworkers provided by Michigan State University.

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Bird flu: Emails reveal how health departments struggle to track human cases

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We have had multiple dairies refuse a site visit,” wrote the communicable disease program manager in Weld, Colorado, in a July 2 email. “[REDACTED] does not feel that they need MSU Extension to come out,” she added, referring to outreach to farmworkers provided by Michigan State University. “We

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Monkeypox Outbreaks in Texas: Are We Ready to Prevent the Next Outbreak?

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The best way to catch emerging infectious diseases early is to equip frontline clinicians with comprehensive data on all reported infectious diseases , including: a list of symptoms, the ability to compare conditions with similar presentations, and a history of global outbreaks and documented cases, country-specific notes on disease outbreaks.