The most notable of these pronouncements came from Mehta, the Gujarat chief minister, who told reporters on Friday that the epidemic " cannot be plague, " although officials of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases in New Delhi had already said tests had confirmed the plague.
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Partners, including the U . S . CDC, South Africa s National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Hain Lifescience, and the Harvard School of Public Health, have donated instruments to perform liquid cultures, a power generator, a vehicle to transfer samples, lab expansion, and training.
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When the man, an Indian marine engineer, returned home to Goa on April 3, he was treated by a private doctor for cough and fever, two of the symptoms of the severe acute respiratory syndrome that has killed more than 160 people across the globe, said Dr . Shivlal, director of the National Institute of Communicable Diseases.
