Situations involving anthrax, West Nile virus, SARS, Monkeypox, influenza and mad cow disease since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have resulted in a time for incredible challenges for health as well as health care delivery and public health in the nation, along with around the world, an official with Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday in Temple.

Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, said these challenges have encouraged the agency to take a big view of what