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(a) There is established in the Department of Health the Bureau of Epidemiology, staffed with an epidemiologist, a communicable disease field supervisor, a disease surveillance officer for St. Croix, a disease surveillance officer for St. Thomas and St. John and a data entry manager.\n(b) The Bureau of Epidemiology shall, in addition to all other powers and duties imposed upon it by law, develop and maintain a system for detecting, conducting surveillance of communicable diseases within the Virgin islands and investigating determining the epidemiology of those conditions which contribute to the diseases; and\n(c) establish and operate a central coordinating center for receipt and cataloguing of all surveillance reports.