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Featuring such luminaries as Children's Defense Fund President Marian Wright Edelman and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director David Satcher, yesterday's was the first-ever conference of its kind to address the issue and galvanize support...
...CDC reported that more than one third of those afflicted with AIDS are black--even though that minority group accounts for only 11 percent of the U.S. population...
...CDC's Satcher said his institution strongly supports the battle against AIDS. The CDC will continue to "develop and support programs that fight AIDS at the community level," he said, calling on the conference's participants to think of new, better ways to combat the disease together...
Before they could do that, however, they would need to know that a new outbreak was occurring. So the CDC and the WHO have jointly set up eight surveillance sites in China, where new flu strains almost always arise in livestock (mostly pigs and ducks) before jumping to humans. At these observation sites, health workers take tissue samples whenever a new wave of flu comes through and rush them to the CDC so that scientists can get started on designing a vaccine...
...takes money to do surveillance, though, and the CDC and the WHO, along with such institutions as France's Pasteur Institute, are already stretched very thin. That is why health professionals are relying more and more on modern communications technology, including the Internet, to gather the information they need about disease outbreaks. Heymann's EMC already has its own page under the who Website, and an E-mail network connects research centers around the world with the WHO's headquarters and field offices. The CDC too has a home page, which includes the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report...