PH 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter Prologue: National Cancer Institute, Behavioural Sciences, Intestinal Parasite Infection
22 Jan 2018
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Four major public health stories of the modern era: the aids epidemic, the outbreak of waterborne disease in milwaukee, the health crisis in russia, and the relation of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to public health. 1980s: the new york times began reporting on cases of skin cancer and pneumocystis among gay men, particularly gay men who had multiple and frequent sexual encounters with different partners. Centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) formed a task force to find out what was going on. May 1982: nyt publishes an article recognizing the condition as gay-related immune deficiency syndrome (grid), which we now know as aids. Babies could also become infected at birth if their mothers had aids. The reagan administration mainly ignored the epidemic and the cdc received little funding for research. By 1983, people were starting to get really freaked out by aids.
