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The CDC recommends temporary suspension of adoption proceedings for children from one Chinese orphanage due to measles outbreak.

On Friday, April 16, 2004, the Centers for Disease Control issued a press release recommending the temporary suspension of adoption processing for children from the Zhuzhou Child Welfare Institute, an orphanage in the Hunan Province of China, due to an outbreak of measles there. The suspension applies only to children from the named orphanage. Read a copy of the CDC press release
Also, the State Department issued a notice on Monday, April 19, 2004, in response to the CDC action, explaining the impact on adoptions from China.

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