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DOVER-FOXCROFT - The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, formerly the Bureau of Health, has gone from a small agency that collected and maintained vital records and tracked and controlled infectious diseases to an agency that also regulates drinking water, provides public health nursing and is responsible for inspections of restaurants, tattoo parlors and tanning facilities.
Dr. Dora Mills, CDC director, shared the developments of her department Tuesday with Piscataquis County commissioners. She said much has been done over the years to improve public health by coordinating efforts, streamlining contracts and working to get local health officers, or LHO, trained in the statutes.See the full content of this document
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Local Health Officers Focus of Meeting
Actually it was the local health officer issue that prompted her visit. Tom Iverson Jr., Piscataquis County's Emergency Management Agency director, expressed his concern to commissioners last month that state law stipulate...
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