Word: cdc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease (PID), a painful, sometimes sterilizing infection that affects about 1 million American women each year. Chlamydia, like herpes, is rapidly becoming the bane of the middle class; up to 10% of all college students are afflicted with it. Says Dr. Mary Guinan of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta: "Chlamydia is the disease...
Schechter thinks the CDC will find a rash of cases. Since the Los Angeles Times carried a story about Cislaw, Schechter's office has been flooded with hundreds of calls from clove smokers complaining of shortness of breath, nosebleeds, nausea, lung infections and asthma. "About 30% to 35% said they were coughing up blood," he says. "Emergency rooms haven't seen a symptom like that since TB was in style...
...Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, there have been 232 cases of AIDS in American healthcare workers; of these, 23 did not belong to one of the four risk groups. None of these cases, however, has been directly connected to occupational exposure, insists Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC task force on AIDS. Even the Boston case is subject to question. So far, investigators have been unable to find out if the laboratory worker had actually handled AlDS-con-taminated blood. "Whether he got AIDS from the needle stick is unclear and is likely to remain unclear," says Curran...
...week with the release of a new study by Dr. Martin Hirsch of Massachusetts General Hospital. Hirsch has followed 85 hospital employees who routinely worked with AIDS patients or samples of their body fluids over periods of one to three years. None contracted the disease. As long as the CDC's safety guidelines for working with the AIDS virus are followed closely, says Hirsch, "health-care workers are at low risk...
...several decades, New Yorker Cartoonist William Steig, 78, has devoted himself to diverting children as well as adults. His latest work, CDC? (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.95), tells jokes by using what seem to be isolated letters and digits. At first glance the pages hold pure nonsense: two small boys watch a television set; below them is the legend "R T-M S B-N B-10." But when the letters and number are pronounced, young readers can crack the code: "Our team is bein' beaten." A Martian has descended from a spaceship. The line explains...