Bioterrorism

Mississippi Receives $2 Million to Combat Public Safety Threats

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, July 2nd, 2000

The estimated $2 million the state of Mississippi will receive in the next five years to prepare for biological warfare will be spent on education and detection, say health officials.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, will make the funds available to 43 states.

In Mississippi, state health officer Ed Thompson said, "We're focusing on enhancing two areas, epidemiology and surveillance, that will allow us to detect the diseases more quickly. The speed in which we can detect this can mean the difference in a few hundred and a few thousand deaths."

Thompson said the state Department of...

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