CDC-Counting Dead Citizens
“CDC-Counting Dead Citizens”
If memory serves the driving function for the CDC was to count and collate information about the dead. In the forties there was a fear that the Soviet Union would launch a bioweapon and we would be caught flatfooted. Every death must be reported IIR within ten days along with the relevant information. The CDC would monitor the data looking for trends. They did find trends that affected health. IIR they spotted the trend of cancer deaths at Love Canal and that led to the discovery of a uranium glass dump from a plant that was there in the time of the American colonies.
Or, Creating Dead Citizens.