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Disease Detectives Celebrate 50 Years of Successful Sleuthing
Brian Vastag
JAMA. 2001;285:1947-1949.
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Atlanta—They are perhaps the most influential medical group you've never heard of. Among their numbers rank legions of state health officers, a dozen deans of prestigious schools of public health, two surgeons general, the chief medical writer at the New York Times, and the current director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Over the past half century, they've been involved in investigating thousands of public health threats, infectious or otherwise, in the United States and abroad. Polio, smallpox, lead poisoning in children, vinyl chloride and liver cancer, Legionnaire's disease, Ebola virus, toxic shock syndrome, the first cases of AIDS, West Nile virus, and violence in the schools have all been illuminated by their work.
They've been called "disease detectives," "medical sleuths," and in a less flattering way, the "medical CIA." They've been profiled in National Geographic and dozens of other publications. On the screen, . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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