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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Isabel Keane

CDC boosts staff working on containing hantavirus outbreak from 3 to 100 as agency seeks to avoid Covid measures: report

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has increased the number of staff working to contain the hantavirus outbreak from three to 100 personnel, as the agency tries to avoid strict safety measures similar to the Covid pandemic, according to a report.

The increase occurred last week and includes staffers from the CDC’s National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, which handles the threat of infectious diseases, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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