Word: epidemiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best way to contain AIDS is through education about how to prevent exposure to the virus. Moreover, the new guidelines are being written at a time when many experts are suggesting that the threat to the general public from AIDS has been exaggerated. Says Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta: "We really have not seen much evidence for the spread of the virus into people who are not in risk groups . . . For most people, the risk of AIDS is essentially zero...
...health workers infected by means other than contaminated needles. One, who suffers from acne, was splattered in the face and mouth with blood when a stopper popped off a tube. Another, an emergency-room worker, applied pressure to a patient's bleeding arm with her chapped hands. A CDC epidemiologist said that such cases are extremely rare and should not be a cause for alarm...
...Brigham and Women's Hospital. After studying past contraceptive use by 283 childless women with tubal infertility and 3,833 new mothers, the researchers found that women who had used barrier contraceptives had 40% less risk of tubal infertility. The explanation, suggests one of the report's authors, Harvard Epidemiologist Marlene Goldman, is that these contraceptives prevent any germs carried in the semen from reaching the upper genital tract and causing pelvic inflammatory disease, the most common cause of tubal infertility. Concluded Willard Cates, of the Centers for Disease Control, in an accompanying editorial:"The ulimate educational message is that...
...fascination. Any solution to such a carefully rendered enigma is likely to seem a letdown, and Percy's answer threatens, for a time, to stop The Thanatos Syndrome dead in its tracks. Tom, aided by his young, distant and potentially kissing cousin Lucy Lipscomb, herself a doctor and an epidemiologist, discovers that the local water supply is being laced with heavy sodium from the coolant of a nearby nuclear power plant. Whodunit? Not, it turns out, the National Institutes of Health or the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The villains are a couple of doctors, both known to Tom, who have contrived...
...more exotic explanation was posed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...