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Comment author: Ishaan 01 October 2013 09:24:53PM *  3 points [-]

It seems to me that CDC is important iff there is an outbreak of a deadly epidemic.

I was thinking of more mundane things, for example the yearly flu, which kills quite a few people yearly and would kill more but for careful monitoring of strains and preventative vaccination measures.

The CDC alone isn't what I'm concerned about. It's the small-to-medium inconvenience distributed over a very large number of research facilities, and the larger inconveniences to projects which are time sensitive.

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