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...infected makes it easier to track (and prevent) the spread of the disease. But HIV/AIDS, once considered the "gay plague," still carries a stigma, and that could scare many HIV-positive people away from putting their names in a database. They may not be reassured by the CDC recommendation that states make it a felony to release the names of HIV patients. "This is all part of a larger issue of privacy versus the ability to track and help prevent a disease," notes TIME science writer Christine Gorman. "And the privacy concerns are greatly heightened in the case...
...some population groups, adult smoking rates in the 1990s have remained essentially static, thanks to large numbers of 18-to-24-year-olds who are picking up the habit. Between 1965 and 1990, the percentage of Americans who smoked plummeted from 44 percent to 24.7 percent, a drop the CDC likes to cite as "one of the 10 most notable public health achievements of this century." Current figures are well above the agency's goal, which is to see only 15 percent of the population smoking by the year 2000. It doesn't look like that's going to happen...
Sources--Good News: JAMA (10/6/99); Journal of Clinical Investigation (10/99). Bad News: FDA; CDC...
...collection had suddenly died, and her autopsies showed heart and brain damage. She promptly sent tissue samples to a U.S. Department of Agriculture veterinary lab in Ames, Iowa. Finding no evidence of equine encephalitis or other suspected pathogens, the lab forwarded her samples to a CDC lab in Fort Collins, Colo., for further study...
Answers may come this week as CDC investigators fan across Queens, seeking blood samples in an effort to learn more about a most unwelcome visitor...