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bWHO Collaborating Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Control, School of Public Health, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China Pandemic ...

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Layoffs of 10,000 Health and Human Services employees begin. Agencies devoted to seniors, minorities and HIV prevention ...

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In February, the CDC published, deleted, then rereleased an unsettling report describing two instances where indoor cats in the households of dairy workers fell ill with bird flu. Out of five cats ...

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