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Cyclospora Outbreak Response Slowed by Cuts to Public Health Staffing and Funding
A record year of cyclospora outbreaks is being compounded by reductions in state and local public health capacity, according to NPR, Health Shots, raising questions about the nation's ability to trace and contain foodborne illness.
Why We Ran This
This story runs to restore the human context behind a public health system most readers only notice when it fails, and to name whose dignity is at stake in that silence.
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