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California & The Hiv/Aids Epidemic: The State Of The State Report 1999, California Department Of Health Services
California & The Hiv/Aids Epidemic: The State Of The State Report 1999, California Department Of Health Services
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Social Risk And The Transformation Of Public Health Law: Lessons From The Plague Years, Elizabeth B. Cooper
Social Risk And The Transformation Of Public Health Law: Lessons From The Plague Years, Elizabeth B. Cooper
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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) was the wake-up call that disturbed America from its mid-twentieth century slumber concerning the dangers of communicable diseases. Until AIDS was identified in 1981, most Americans felt largely impervious to health threats posed by viruses or bacteria. Polio, smallpox, and tuberculosis had been brought under control by the "magic bullets" of antibiotics and vaccines." We felt more susceptible to the ravages of cancer or the debilitation of heart disease. But, over the last twenty years, the (re)emergence of serious or life-threatening microbial- based conditions such as Ebola, hantavirus, Lyme disease, West Nile virus, and even …