HIV Surveillance: The Conscience of the Epidemic
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The first cases of what would come to be recognized as the beginning of the HIV epidemic were reported without a lot of fanfare in the US CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report [1]. The report of five homosexual men with a rare pneumonia was presented as a case series, but, in retrospect, established a working surveillance case definition for a new disease. Dr. James Curran, the scientist who led the CDC team for that MMWR report, later oversaw the US HIV surveillance system for many years and has famously called HIV surveillance “the conscience of the epidemic”.
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