Noting that our scheduled speaker might have been called away at the last minute, Rotarian Ralph Smith changed his planned introduction into a description of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and it's role in Colorado. In the 1950's, he said, a large Boy Scout jamboree in Colorado Springs experienced a major strep epidemic that resulted in a CDC laboratory being set up in the foothills of Fort Collins as a research facility that aged and then was rebuilt for millions of dollars.
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