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Catherine Applefield Olson

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CDC asks Missouri to pilot inoculation-tracing net

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta could model a national immunization network after Missouri's growing inoculation-tracking system. CDC recently gave Missouri a three-year grant worth $660,000 a year to create the system, which centralizes inoculation and other health records. Depending on how well the Missouri system works, CDC might use it as part of a federal blueprint for a chain of immunization databases nationwide.