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...Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce, who spent more than two weeks reporting the activities of the Government's CDC for this week's cover stories, the agency is responsible for Americans' receiving the best protection in the world against such sudden and unexpected killers as toxic shock syndrome, Legionnaire's disease and swine flu. Boyce, who talked with CDC administrators, epidemic intelligence-service officers and public health officers, was doubly impressed by the agency's operations. Says he: "As a onetime premedical student who took courses in comparative anatomy, embryology and histology, I was fascinated...
...Environment. Offshore oil-tract leasing procedures and toxic-substance regulations could be overruled by House or Senate. Any federal sale of land parcels larger than 2,500 acres could be scotched. In 1981 Interior Secretary James Watt was stopped by a House committee from leasing mineral rights to 1.5 million acres of Montana wilderness...
...million on AIDS research this year and requesting $12 million more. Some gay activists have charged that the Reagan Administration is neglecting AIDS because it primarily affects homosexuals. (In fact, the money allocated to AIDS research so far is greater than the $20 million spent over eight years on toxic shock syndrome and Legionnaire's disease.) Heckler's department also publishes a biweekly bulletin reporting the findings of researchers; next week it will start operating a toll-free hotline (800-342-AIDS) to answer questions about the syndrome...
...addition to the 1,000 requests for help that come from state and local agencies each year, the CDC undertakes about 50 projects overseas. Recent examples: tackling a polio epidemic in Indonesia meningitis in Upper Volta, malaria in Zanzibar, toxic reaction to polluted cooking oil in Spain and observing an immunization program against childhood diseases in China. Dr. Bess Miller, 35, was exhausted from working on the AIDS epidemic last year when the phone at home rang one evening. "My first thought was that they wanted to send me somewhere," she recalls. They did. Soon she was in the Israeli...
...developing high temperatures and low blood pressure, with potentially fatal results; out of the 55 patients in the CDC's initial study, seven had died by the end of May. Dr. Kathryn Shands of EIS led the CDC investigation, developing a clear definition for what soon became known as toxic shock syndrome and recording in detail all the cases...