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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.

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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.