id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-018254-v8syiwie Rotz, Lisa D. Case Study – United States of America 2012-08-31 .txt text/plain 5139 169 29 This act authorized more than 1.5 billion US dollars in grants to state and local governments and healthcare facilities to improve planning, training, detection, and response capacity as well as funding to expand the federal Strategic National Stockpile of medications and vaccines and upgrade food inspection capacity and CDC facilities that deal with public health threats. In addition to the central role the LRN played in detecting and responding to the 2001 anthrax letter event, the commitment to infrastructure support and standardized platform testing capacity within the LRN has also proven extremely bene fi cial in assisting with more rapid and broader deployment of tests developed in response to other emerging public health threats such as the 2003 Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the 2009 H1N1 avian in fl uenza pandemic. ./cache/cord-018254-v8syiwie.txt ./txt/cord-018254-v8syiwie.txt