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Commissioner Tim Sutton wants Health Department to provide more flu data

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Tim Sutton, County Commissioner wants the ethnic breakdown of the six confirmed cases of the H1N1 flu virus in Alamance County and says County Health Director Barry Bass should provide it. Bass said he doesn't have the data. "First of all, people in this country have a right to have their health care information protected under HIPAA (a federal law that governs the release of health information), so therefore we do not vet information about particular cases," Bass said Monday as Sutton questioned him during a recent

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