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  2. Epidemic Intelligence Service - Wikipedia

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    The Epidemic Intelligence Service was organized on September 26, 1951, with the purpose of investigating disease outbreaks that are beyond the control of state and local health departments, enforcing interstate quarantine regulations, and providing epidemic aid at the request of state health agencies.

  3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention timeline - Wikipedia

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    1951 – The Epidemic Intelligence Service was established to help protect against biological warfare and manmade epidemics. 1952 – Surgeon General Dr. Leonard A. Scheele reported that the Communicable Disease Center was ready to combat possible biological warfare.

  4. 1957–1958 influenza pandemic - Wikipedia

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    In light of developing Cold War–era concerns over biological warfare, the Epidemic Intelligence Service was created in 1951 at the CDC as a combined service and training program in the field of applied epidemiology, with the purpose of investigating certain disease outbreaks, among other activities. [65]

  5. Alexander Langmuir - Wikipedia

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    Alexander Duncan Langmuir (/ ˈ l æ ŋ m j ʊər /; September 12, 1910 – November 22, 1993) was an American epidemiologist who served as Chief Epidemiologist of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 1949 to 1970, developing the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) as a training program for epidemiologists.

  6. ‘Why we never got Ebola’ by Huffington Post

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    What one nurse learned about humanity amidst the Ebola epidemic

  7. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - Wikipedia

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    In 1951, Chief Epidemiologist Alexander Langmuir's warnings of potential biological warfare during the Korean War spurred the creation of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) as a two-year postgraduate training program in epidemiology.

  8. HHS to lose thousands of workers under Trump administration ...

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    Those being fired included all first-year officers — about 50 in total — in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, according to two agency employees who communicated with some of the affected staffers. The two spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

  9. HHS is losing thousands of workers under Trump administration ...

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    Those being fired included all first-year officers — about 50 in total — in the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, according to two agency employees who communicated with some of the affected staffers. The two spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.