Special EOH-EPI/BIO Seminar May 5th @ 12 noon

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Apr 30, 2009, 9:30:15 PM4/30/09

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The EOH and EPI/BIO departments will be co-hosting a seminar on Tuesday, May 5th about a recent CDC outbreak investigation in Nigeria.

**Attached to this email is a New York Times article about the epidemic.

By: Michael Nguyen, MD

Dr. Nguyen is a member of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) and an officer in the United States Public Health Service. He is currently on a 2-year assignment at the Philadelphia Department of Public Health where his duties include disease surveillance, outbreak investigations and epidemiologic research on the varicella vaccine. Most recently, he led a CDC team deployed to Nigeria to investigate an epidemic of acute renal failure that was associated with medication contaminated with diethylene glycol. Attached is a New York Times article about the epidemic. He completed his pediatrics residency at Washington University in St. Louis, and his medical school and undergraduate studies at the University of Rochester.

From: 12:00 pm-1:00 pm

Held At: Room 604, Bellet Building, 1505 Race Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Refreshments will be served.

We hope to see you there.

84 Children are Killed by Medicine in Nigeria.pdf

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