Word: epidemiologist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...globe in just a few months, although travelers and migrating birds probably help it along. And perhaps because of commercial jets, flu has been spreading more rapidly in recent years, giving health officials even less time to prepare new vaccines. For all these reasons, says University of Pittsburgh Epidemiologist Frederick Ruben, "the only thing that's predictable about influenza is that it's unpredictable...
...lymphoma, caught from their visiting aunt. A typical reaction, says the Georgian, was " 'Don't you ever say anything like that. If you came into my office and said that cancer is contagious, it would empty out.' " In desperation, a family member called Dr. Seymour Grufferman, a cancer epidemiologist at Duke University Medical Center, explained the contagion idea and sent him biopsy slides of the victims' tumors...
...Epidemiologist Warren Winkelstein of the University of California, Berkeley, offered some slight encouragement, suggesting that public education campaigns have slowed the spread of the infection. While the number of AIDS cases is still increasing among homosexual men in San Francisco, he said, the rate of new infections declined from an 18% increase each year between 1982 and 1984 to only about a 4% rise last year. Winkelstein attributes the drop to "safe sex" practices like using condoms. Similar declines have been recorded among gay men and intravenous drug users in Baltimore. Said Dr. Frank Polk of the Johns Hopkins School...
...other 100 was particularly impressive because most of them belonged to low-income families living in the kind of crowded conditions that are thought to facilitate the spread of infectious diseases. If the disease cannot be transmitted in such family settings, says Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief AIDS epidemiologist at Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, "it is far less likely to be transmitted in schools, offices, restaurants and churches...
...says, "and the people next door to them, and next door to them. We had a six-year-old pass away from cancer in the neighborhood, and a 20-year-old." Ross started mapping the victims' homes. After Leah Abbott learned of the poison, she became an amateur epidemiologist too, putting dots on a map of Holbrook, drawing up her own geography of death...