White House Ready to Spend $25 Million to Fight Diseases

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White House Ready to Spend $25 Million to Fight Diseases

Dallas Morning News Online (12/27/98)

Health officials said that President Clinton plans to announce soon a 31 percent increase in the federal program to address emerging infectious diseases. The $25 million initiative is designed to combat the spread of infectious diseases, particularly drug-resistant strains. The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Jeffrey Koplan, said that the money would also go toward the investigation of infectious outbreaks, the update of state and local health department laboratories, the development of new diagnostic tests, and the education of physicians and patients concerning the danger of antibiotic over-use. Federal officials also stated that they wanted the money to be used for improvements in communications between city and county health departments. Koplan asserted that it is necessary to update state and local health departments, noting that "the whole system is only as strong as its weakest link, which unfortunately is often the county health departments." Drug- resistant strains of tuberculosis and gonorrhea have become more common over the past number of years.

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