CDC Investing $110 Million in Disease Surveillance and Detection
Public health laboratories could get a boost from a large infusion of federal funds for testing. That would come from $110 million being provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help states and communities track and respond to infectious diseases. The funding is intended primarily to increase surveillance of vaccine-preventable-diseases, foodborne-disease […]
- $6 million to establish local, state, and territorial health coordinators to track vaccine-preventable diseases like measles and pertussis, the rates of which have been increasing in recent years due to a growing resistance by some parents to vaccinate their children
- $17.4 million for foodborne disease prevention and tracking—up $4 million from fiscal 2014. This will include support for the existing CDC surveillance system called PulseNet, and to establish a new regional center in the Northeast for the CDC’s Food Safety Centers of Excellence
- More than $2 million to help states build their capacity for advanced molecular detection
- About $1.5 million to better monitor and prevent the spread of Lyme and other diseases spread by ticks. Lyme disease has been spreading in recent years, according to the agency
- $9.2 million to state and local health departments to build and maintain disease detection, surveillance, and prevention programs to reduce infections of West Nile virus and other mosquito and tick-borne viruses.
- More funding to help U.S. States on the Mexico border prepare for and respond to potential outbreaks of the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus, which infected more than 1.5 million people throughout the Caribbean, Mexico and Central America last year.
Takeaway: The Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expanded eligibility have increased the number of insured but overall the rate of growth in health care cost remains slower than historical averages.
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