More grant funds to help county predict and prepare for disease outbreaks

More grant money is heading to San Diego County to help anticipate and prepare for future disease outbreaks.

The Board of Supervisors approved a $425,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through the University of California San Diego, Sept. 10.

The newly approved funding adds to another $1.3 million CDC grant received last October as part of the Resilient Shield UCSD Grant Project.

The funds will help County Public Health epidemiologists or “disease detectives,” use disease modeling to study what kinds of contagious diseases might affect San Diego communities in the fu...