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The fear of biological warfare leads to a new program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Concerns of biological warfare during the Korean War lead to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) creating the Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS), which is a two-year program on epidemiology for intervening on biological warfare.