As the debate continues, the nation's public health laboratories are struggling to analyze tests generated by the anthrax scare.

On Saturday, 12 laboratory technicians from the Department of Defense began working at the city's health laboratories.

The conflict of 2003 destroyed an estimated 12 percent of hospitals and Iraq's two main public health laboratories.

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The epidemic has severely strained the nation's public health laboratories, making it more difficult for scientists to obtain the data needed to make crucial decisions.

State and large local public health laboratories frequently perform tests that are unavailable elsewhere.

In some states the environmental and public health laboratory are the same entity, often located within the state health department.

Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis.

And if a large outbreak should occur in an American city, many experts say hospitals and public health laboratories would quickly be overwhelmed.

A concern, as the federal government takes a more aggressive approach to anthrax is that public health laboratories, already overburdened, will become overwhelmed.