Doctors Watching Katrina Shelters Closely for Disease Outbreaks

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The effort is low key but it's intense.

Doctors from the federal government and the state of Louisiana are carefully monitoring people in dozens of shelters statewide for outbreaks of serious and infectious diseases.

Short term, doctors are watching for signs of viral diseases that could be linked to exposure to the nasty black water in New Orleans. Long term, Commander Fransisco Averhoff of the US Public Health Service says they're looking for the slow and silent killers, like tuberculosis.

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I don't know about others out there, but this has been one of my major concerns about the aftermath of Katrina. What worries me even more is that the survivors are now living all over the USA. Note those words up there, The effort is low key but it's intense.

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