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I fter spending nearly four months providing assis-
tance in the anthrax case in Washington, D.C.,
University of Kentucky alumnus Jim Hayslett, an
Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) officer for the Cen- ° e 6
ters for Disease Control, is back home in Austin,Texas.
However, as a member of the CDC’s elite corps of dis—
ease detectives, Hayslett is always ready to respond to the °  
country’s public health emergencies.
One of only three CDC disease detectives with a phar-
macy background in the agency’s history, Hayslett began u m n   e S
working for the EIS in 2000. The agency was established
after the start of the Korean War as an early—waming sys-
tem against biological warfare and man—made epidemics I      
and now has expanded into a surveillance and response
unit for all types of epidemics,
including chronic disease and
injuries.  V A _
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deadly anthrax spores be- y __4,   _,g,, _   A
gan showing up in the   ; . ·= A ·  g   ~
weeks after the Sept. 11 ;A§%$¤€   · I  
terrorist attacks, EIS of- _ I  
ficers were deployed to Florida,Washington, D.C., New   '     _
York, New Jersey and Connecticut to assist with clinical   ` ``‘t    
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Texas Department of Health in Y ‘ ~!'”_ ‘_ `, ·_,. {   j   V.__
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