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Archive Home > 2006 > May > 26 > Locals must handle bird flu problem

Locals must handle bird flu problem

Feds say communities would take lead role in handling pandemic

By Peter Sachs / The Bulletin
May 26, 2006

WASHINGTON - Communities will have to shoulder the brunt of the responsibilities if a pandemic of avian flu ever strikes, the top federal health department official testified before U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith's committee on Thursday.

"There is no way a government can get to 5,000 communities at....

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