U.S. Safer When CDC Works with Other Countries to Fight Infectious Diseases

by Gary Kopycinski on January 30, 2014

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Atlanta, GA–(ENEWSPF)–January 30, 2014. According to an article in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), pilot projects between CDC and Uganda and CDC and Vietnam have resulted in improvements in disease detection…