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

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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. Many farmers cooperated with health officials, but delays between their visits and when outbreaks started meant cases might have been missed. Sign up for its newsletters here.

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The U.S. withdrawal from the WHO

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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.