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RCAHD Community Column: Disease Defenders – How Epidemiology Protects Community Health

By RCAHD Community Column,

2024-08-15

The mission of the Epidemiology Division of the Roanoke City & Alleghany Health Districts (RCAHD) is to monitor and investigate emerging communicable diseases, investigate outbreaks, and provide guidance to stop the further spread of communicable diseases for our community’s wellbeing. To put it more simply, epidemiologists are “disease defenders” who use data to answer questions […]

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