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...infected patient is a native of the Cape Verde Islands off the western coast of Africa. Her diagnosis was quickly confirmed at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta with specialized blood tests that are not yet commercially available. CDC officials insist that her HIV-2 infection is an isolated case. Epidemiologists have screened nearly 23,000 U.S. blood samples for HIV-2 in the past 13 months without finding a single case. Says the CDC's Gerald Schochetman: "At present there is no great concern...
Patricia J. Libby, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of Community Development Corporation (CDC), said the CDC is the largest producer of affordable housing in Massachusetts and would probably receive the largest portion of this state's grant money from the bill...
...saying that AIDS is under control," said James Mason, director of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control. "We are saying that it's not spreading like wildfire." That conclusion, the result of a CDC study released last week along with a preliminary report by President Reagan's AIDS commission, was little comfort to many Americans: AIDS has killed nearly 27,000 people in the past seven years, and is expected to infect a quarter of a million more by 1991. Nonetheless, the two reports met with cautious approval, even among critics, for the Administration's attempt to find some...
...CDC, for its part, reported that the epidemic seems to have stabilized. As many as 1.5 million people are now infected, most of them in high-risk groups like homosexual men and intravenous drug users. But the rate of new infection among homosexuals has fallen dramatically. Moreover, there are no signs of the much feared "breakout" of AIDS into the heterosexual population. Still, infection among IV drug users has skyrocketed. "It's clear that we are dealing not with just one epidemic but a series of subepidemics," declared U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Otis Bowen...
Shilts says he interviewed more than 900 people. He lists dates for eleven interviews with Dr. James Curran, head of the CDC's AIDS program. The most poignant passages recount the first stirrings, before doctors knew there was such a disease. Shilts suggests that the first non-African victim may have been Margrethe Rask, a Danish physician who fell ill in 1976 while working in a primitive village hospital in Zaire and died of AIDS-related pneumonia in 1977. At about the time Rask succumbed, Shilts began interviewing physicians about the health implications of the gay sexual revolution. Often...