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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention takes over quarantine management.
Date: 1967
Public health
Epidemics & disease
Additional departments develop, as the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) becomes no longer the sole central point for the management of all health-related activities in the U.S.
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