Epidemiology

AIDS Pandemic Seen Worsening Next Century

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 11th, 1999

Unless the search for a cure for AIDS accelerates or preventive methods improve, the worst of the HIV epidemic has yet to come, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases predicted.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, writing in the New England Journal of Medicine, said "what began as a handful of recognized cases among homosexual men in the United States has become a global pandemic of such proportions that it clearly ranks as one of the most destructive microbial scourges in history."

"Unless methods of prevention, with or without a vaccine, are successful, the worst of the global pandemic will occur in the 21st century," he...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-10-11)

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