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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2002;287:2061-2063.

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Atlanta—The aftershocks of a seismic event in the infectious diseases community—the use of anthrax as a biological weapon—continue to reverberate. But bioterrorism is but a small component of the field of emerging infections, and researchers presenting new findings here at the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases reported developments on a number of fronts.

HIV/AIDS in Russia

HIV is sweeping through the northwestern region of Russia, according to new findings reported here by researchers from Norway and the Russian Federation, and the unfolding epidemic is causing alarm among public health experts.

Previously, officials with the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) had warned of an explosion of HIV in other areas of Russia. The country's first reported HIV epidemic emerged in 1996 in the Baltic port city of Kaliningrad, mostly among male injecting drug users (IDUs). Researchers then noted a similar explosive surge of new HIV . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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