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

KFF Health News

. “I have been distressed and depressed by the lack of epidemiologic data and the lack of surveillance,” said Nicole Lurie, formerly the assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Obama administration. “But a handful of mild symptoms don’t warrant a heavy-handed response.”

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

HEALTHBEAT

I have been distressed and depressed by the lack of epidemiologic data and the lack of surveillance,” said Nicole Lurie, formerly the assistant secretary for preparedness and response in the Obama administration. But a handful of mild symptoms don’t warrant a heavy-handed response.” All the bird flu cases among U.S.