Interpreter Helps Thwart Public Health Outbreak

For anyone who ever had doubts about the important role interpreters play in society at large, here is a story worth noting.

Carol Hidalgo, an interpreter at the Mayo Health System's Austin Medical Center noticed a pattern among patients for whom she was interpreting described the same symptoms and happened to work at the same pork processing facility.

Eventually, a partnership was formed that included the plant, Austin Medical Center, Mayo Clinic, the state health department and the CDC, who are continuing to prevent against further outbreaks of the disease.

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