Word: cdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...move proved sound. After ruling out food and person-to-person transmission of the infection, the CDC men learned that all of the patients had received platelets-blood components that help promote clotting-from the same donor. Following up that clue, they found that the man unknowingly had chronic, asymptomatic osteomyelitis, an infection of the bone that was the cause of the cancer patients' new illness. The CDC'S discovery helped the cancer victims and may have saved others as well. The man revealed that he had sold 57 pints of blood during a seven-month period...
Such scientific sleuthing is routine for the CDC, which is to communicable disease what the FBI is to crime. Since it was established in 1946 as an outgrowth of a World War II agency set up to control malaria, the CDC has tracked down the sources of typhoid epidemics, traced a hepatitis outbreak in Michigan to a single bakery worker, and hunted down untold thousands of venereal-disease victims in need of treatment. Its efforts are essential, since infectious diseases remain one of the country's most troublesome health hazards. This year alone, they are expected to account...
Death Toll. The CDC does not believe that the current outbreak will become an epidemic, but the flu is making its presence felt. The Massachusetts state health department has reported that school absenteeism has climbed as high as 20% in some sections of the state. Hawaiian authorities have noted a substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent...
...probe may not help much, for the damage has already been done. The officials responsible for the study have long since retired. Present CDC officials agree with DuVal that such a study could not be conducted today. Their solicitude, however, is small consolation for the 74 of the original 425 syphilitics still surviving. The agency is treating them for whatever other diseases or physical problems they might have, but it can do little for their syphilis. The average age of the survivors is 74, and the massive penicillin therapy necessary to arrest their long-ignored affliction could do more harm...
...CDC were not so sure. Representatives from both agencies and the American Academy of Pediatrics met in Washington to review matters. They reaffirmed the FDA's December position but added a hedge: the cleanser may be temporarily used for bathing if there is a staph outbreak...