Dr. William Sledge Riggins M.D., M.P.H.
Preventative Medicine Specialist | Public Health & General Preventive Medicine
100 W 3rd St Georgetown TX, 78626About
William Riggins is a preventative medicine specialist practicing in Georgetown, TX. Riggins specializes in the health of individuals, communities, and particular populations, focusing on how to protect and maintain health as well as prevent disease and dangers. As a preventative health specialist, Riggins participates in the planning and evaluation of health services, researches diseases in specific populations and helps manage health care organizations. Preventative medicine specialists can specialize further in aerospace medicine, occupational medicine, or public health and general preventive medicine.
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Real-time PCR detection of salmonella in suspect foods from a gastroenteritis outbreak in kerr county, Texas.
- Tackling disaster: medicine's "trusted agent" role becomes evident.
- You're the flight surgeon: modified measles in a commercial/reserve component pilot.
- Fatal pneumonia among metalworkers due to inhalation exposure to Bacillus cereus Containing Bacillus anthracis toxin genes.
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