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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

HEALTHBEAT

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?

Gideon

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.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO

Your Local Epidemiologist

Its scope is huge—everything from disease surveillance to mental health to non-communicable diseases. has robust health infrastructure, its own vaccine and diagnostic certification systems, and disease surveillance capabilities through agencies like CDC. Then, there is a scope problem. The result?

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NYC loses millions in state aid for public health services each year. City leaders want the money back.

HEALTHBEAT

Through Article 6, local health departments receive state reimbursement for core public health services like communicable disease control and chronic disease prevention. This budget season, that mechanism Article 6 of the Public Health Law has drawn attention in Albany. But in 2019, Gov.