The U.S. government created the CDC in 1946 as the Communicable Disease Center, but its mission has expanded.

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They have to say they have some other ailment aside from AIDS and they must say that they need to go to any hospital except the Communicable Disease Center at Tan Tock Seng Hospital -- the only place in Singapore that handles AIDS patients.

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