Word: epidemiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...positive, the psychological effect is devastating. And critics of mass testing question the ethics of informing people who are practicing safe sex, like Student Souleles, that they have been exposed. "You're handing people an explosion in their lives," says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist. Says Souleles: "The risks outweigh the benefits of finding out. I can deal with it fine on this level...
...Africa, as many as 2 million to 5 million may already be infected, and in ten years, predicts Epidemiologist B. Frank Polk, of Johns Hopkins University, "some countries could lose 25% of their population." The loss in terms of the economy and social structure could well equal the black death's ruination of medieval Europe...
...them will progress to the full-blown disease. As more cases are reported, researchers have come to realize that the chances of developing AIDS are greater in the second five years after infection than in the first. "As time goes on," says Dr. James Curran, a top AIDS epidemiologist at the CDC, "only a minority of infected people will remain healthy. I feel less optimistic about a normal life span for any infected person...
...York City, which has the highest concentration of victims, 10% of those with the disease are female. ) Women who are sexually active must face some hard choices; playing out Erica Jong's little scenario is not easy. Says Judith Cohen, a University of California at San Francisco epidemiologist who for the past two years has been surveying some 500 women at high risk of catching the virus: "The sheer political and power issues involved in telling someone that you think using a condom would be a good idea are real difficult and complicated. They raise questions like, 'Are you telling...
Having children can sometimes be a trial. But a study revealed at the Dallas meeting last week by Epidemiologist Evelyn Talbott suggests that not having offspring can lead to far more serious consequences. Childless women over 50, she reported, may be at greater risk for sudden, fatal heart attacks than their contemporaries who are mothers...