The Office of Homeland Security has a mission to rebuild the crumbling public health infrastructures of each state and provide
a. Vaccines for smallpox, anthrax, and plague
b. Regulation of nuclear weapons
c. Surveillance of bioterrorism threats
d. Regulation of foreign nurses entering the United States
ANS: C
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