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Update: Largest-ever deployment of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officers : for immediate release, January 25, 2002
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Description:Elite corps of 'disease detectives' deployed in record numbers since Sept. 11
One hundred thirty six CDC EIS officers, or 93 percent of the total number of disease detectives at CDC, were deployed at least once to assist state and local public health agencies since September 11, 2001. The deployment of 34 officers to New York City on September 14 was the largest single deployment of EIS officers to one location in its 51-year history. Many others were assigned to monitor for signs of bioterrorism-related illnesses in New York, Florida, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and Connecticut.
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