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Nature 443, 250-251 (21 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/443250a; Published online 20 September 2006

Claims of brain drain follow CDC reshuffle

Helen Pearson

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US may be ill-prepared for disease outbreaks.

Preventing disease has always lacked the prestige of curing it. Now advocates for public health are concerned that the field is being further undermined by dissent behind the doors of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one of the world's highest-profile public-health agencies.