January 16, 2018
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Public Health & Healthcare Preparedness
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WEBINAR Public Health Response to Severe Influenza.
With the spike in flu cases around the country, this Grand Rounds will provide key and timely information for public health professionals on how to reduce the spread of seasonal flu in communities and adjust to spot shortages in antiviral drugs because of high influenza activity in some areas. This webinar will take place on January 16, 2018 at1 PM EST. Registration is required.
(CDC, 1/12/18)
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NEWS US Rep Says CDC is Endangering Lives; Wants Outbreak Details.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, fired off a scathing letter Monday to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. DeLauro, who has routinely championed food safety initiatives, slammed the CDC's apparent lack of action and failure to provide pertinent information to the public. She said the CDC's performance so far is too little, too late and too dangerous.
(Food Safety News, 1/9/18)
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Homeland Security & Disaster Preparedness
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Radiological & Nuclear Disaster Preparedness
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Unintended Consequences: Medicaid and the Opioid Epidemic. US Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs. 1/17/18, 10 AM. Dirksen 342. More |
More Than a Nuclear Threat: North Korea's Chemical, Biological, and Conventional Weapons. US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittees on Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade & Asia and the Pacific. 1/17/18, 2 PM. Rayburn 2172. More |
Modernizing the Superfund Cleanup Program. US House Committee on Energy & Commerce, Subcommittee on Environment. 1/18/18, 10:15 AM. Rayburn 2322. More |
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