Miami-Dade County Health Department
Miami-Dade County Health Department
Miami-Dade County Health Department
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Disease DetectivesControl of Communicable DiseasesWhenever a disease outbreak affects our community, the <strong>Miami</strong>-<strong>Dade</strong> <strong>County</strong> <strong>Health</strong><strong>Department</strong> (MDCHD) has a structure and mechanisms to identify diseases quickly inorder to slow down its spread. The protagonists in that process are our epidemiologists, or“disease detectives.”Disease detectives include physicians, nurses, veterinarians, pharmacists, lab techniciansand other experts, who understand that the chances of dramatically slowing or evenstopping an outbreak are highest if they can recognize a disease early on and rapidlydisseminate information and act against it.
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