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CNN: Local health departments worry about government shutdown’s effects on staffing, disease outbreaks and nutrition services
"“State and local health partners, along with the public, should expect delays in CDC’s ability to identify and respond to outbreaks. Specifically, CDC will maintain minimal capacity to respond to an urgent disease threat or other critical need in areas including food safety, healthcare quality and patient safety, vector-borne disease, and high consequence pathogens,” Andrew Nixon, a spokesperson for the US Department of Health and Human Services, said in an email Wednesday. "
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/health/government-shutdown-vaccines
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