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For all its successes, the CDC has had to fight for funds?including money to set up EIS in 1951?by stressing the national security benefits of the center. In 1981, the White House considered cutting the CDC budget by 23%; Richard Schweiker, who was then HHS Secretary, successfully fought...
Each year the CDC accepts 60 or so people involved in health care for a two-year tour of duty with the EIS. "We look for the bright, somewhat aggressive independent thinker," says Dr. Lyle Conrad, head of the division's field service officers. About half are based in Atlanta...
The case that made the CDC known to the public at large remains a classic in the annals of medical detective work. In July 1976, Pennsylvania chapters of the American Legion held a rollicking convention at Philadelphia's Bellevue Stratford Hotel. In the next few days, eleven Pennsylvanians died, apparently...
With a malady of unknown cause, the first step is to decide how to define it. "We wanted the definition to be broad enough to include most cases, but not so broad that it would include everybody with a cold," Tsai recalls. Six EIS agents fanned out across the state...
Another famed mystery was solved primarily by the epidemiologists rather than the lab scientists. In January 1980, doctors in Wisconsin and Minnesota noticed that an unusual number of young women were suddenly developing high temperatures and low blood pressure, with potentially fatal results; out of the 55 patients in the...