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Hortensis

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12. Lol. The CDC (also) issues a variety of emails about disease status around the planet.

Reply to LuckyCharms (Reply #3)

Tue Sep 19, 2017, 07:57 PM

Sep 2017

Anyone can sign up for them. I get one including flus that I very seldom read, but I'm sloppy about letting email pile up, and the next time the threat of a pandemic causes the government to censor all news about it (such as happened in I think 2007) I should have a few piled up I can scan for pathogen outbreaks that suddenly go missing.

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