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CANADA Ontario Cancer Institute, Toronto, Canada e-mail NETADMIN@UTORONTO FRANCE Institut Pasteur Fondation, Paris, e-mail GERARD@FRPSTR01 French Communicable Disease Network (INSERM) e-mail GARNERIN@FRURBB51 USSR Center for Emergency Medicine, Moscow e-mail ZAKH@HOME.VEGA.MSK.SU NATIONAL - USA FEDERAL: CDC Center for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA Complete list of CDC staff bitnet addresses obtainable from HSPNET- L@ALBNYDH2 fileserver. Food and Drug Administration BIR: Laurence Dusold, LRD@FDACFSAN INFOREP: Donna Kovalsky, DBK@FDACFSAN TECHREP: Laurence Dusold, LRD@FDACFSAN MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, Richard Landkamer, MAILMNT@UTHVM1 National Inst. of Environmental Health Science. BIR: Art Cullati, (919) 541-3432, CULLATI@NIEHS INFOREP: James Dix, (919) 541-3221, DIX@NIEHS TECHREP: Fred Castner, (919) 541-2552, KASTNER@NIEHS (Research Triangle Park, NC) National Institutes of Health BIR: Joseph Naughton, (301) 496-5381, JDN@NIHCU INFOREP: Roger Fajman, (301) 496-5181, RAF@NIHCU TECHREP: Roger Fajman, (301) 496-5181, RAF@NIHCU Re further NIH nodes (for a complete list of BITNET, Internet and DECNET nodes of their 3+Mail gateway, send a message to SERVER@NIH3PLUS with a subject of NODES. This list includes some CDC, FDA, HHS, IHS, and PHS nodes. (Or contact Roger Fajman). The ones listed as NIH-only are reachable as user%node@CU.NIH.GOV.: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCE: niehsc,niehs, niehse,niehsd NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, AGING: nihnia31, nihnia10, nihniafb NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, CHILD HEALTH: nihhd02 national INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DCRT: nihdcrt, nihcring, nihdcrtl, nihcr31 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DRG: nihdrg NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, DRS: nihdrs nih medline: nihopsis nih NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE: nihcdce1, nihcdce2, nihccpc1, nihccpc2, nihceib, nihcod1 to 7, nihcrrp nih bei: nihnei31 nih nhlbi: nihh101, nihh102, nihh311, nihhfed1, nihhwb1 nih nichd: nihhdo1 nih niddk: nihklmb nih nigms: nihgms31, nihgmsww nih nimh: nihmh36 nih od des: nihode10, nihode11, nihode13, nihode31, nihode37, nihod1, nihod31, nihodcdb NAVAL HEALTH SCIENCES MEDICAL DATA SERVICES Dennis DePew, DEPEW@HSETC UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES Michael Karas, KARAS@USUHS Health Sciences Library Consortium; Joseph Scorza, SCORZA@SHRSYS.HSLC.ORG Health Sphere of America, Inc., Jesse Asher, JESSEA@HOMECARE.COM Health Systems International; Richard Stevens, STEVENS@KOHALA.COM Salk Institute BIR: Anne M. 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