Thanks To Budget Cuts, U.S. Remains Unprepared To Combat Future Public Health Emergencies

Thanks To Budget Cuts, U.S. Remains Unprepared To Combat Future Public Health Emergencies: Despite numerous public health threats over the past decade — including bioterrorism threats like anthrax attacks, the spread of airborne diseases like the swine flu epidemic, and extreme weather disasters like Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy — a new report finds that states across the country still have serious gaps in their emergency preparedness plans. The [...]/p