Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...country, with which the CDC works closely. All are on call 24 hours a day, ready to go wherever a disease breaks out, be it food poisoning or a case of primary pneumonic plague that appeared in 1980 in California (all 185 people who were exposed to the victim were inoculated six hours after the disease was confirmed). After completing their two years, EIS graduates are given a prized emblem of their craft: a key chain with a tiny metal keg of Watney's Red Barrel Beer, served at the John Snow Pub on the site of the infamous water...
...bent over and hardly able to move, was brought to the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. His symptoms were similiar to those of patients afflicted with Parkinson's disease, which usually affects the elderly. Dr. William Langston speculated that the cause might be something in the heroin that the victim used. The doctor and his team were able to track down others who had used the same batch of the drug and found similar reactions. Through a chance conversation with another doctor, help from police, and tips resulting from a newspaper story, Langston uncovered other cases and obtained samples...
...strongest evidence that an infectious agent was on the loose came from what has been called the Los Angeles cluster. Interviewing victims, investigators began compiling the names of their sex partners. Three different men, none of whom knew each other, each mentioned the same man in New York City; he turned out to be an AIDS victim. Since then, 40 cases in ten cities have been linked to one another by sexual relationships...
...search and speculation went on, researchers in U.S. labs added their own clues: the blood of AIDS victims has an imbalance among the cells that help govern the production of antibodies. A normal immune system has twice as many helper Tcells, which stimulate the making of antibodies, as it does suppressor Tcells, which keep antibody production under control. In an AIDS victim, the ratio may be reversed. Often there are fewer cells of both types...
...other theory is that the immune system of AIDS victims is simply overpowered by the assault of a variety of infections. Both drug users and active homosexuals are continually bombarded by a gallery of illnesses. Repeated exposure to the herpes virus, or to sperm entering the blood after anal intercourse, can lead to elevated levels of suppressor Tcells. The immune system eventually is so badly altered that, as one researcher puts it, "the whole thing explodes." Other experts combine the two theories, speculating that a new virus may indeed be involved, but that it only takes hold when a combination...