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- Title
The Persistence of Public Health Problems: SF, STD, and AIDS.
- Authors
Yankauer, Alfred
- Abstract
The article focuses on various public health problems in the U.S. The very rapid identification of AIDS virus and the production of a screening test however are a sharp contrast to the tortuous unraveling of the role of streptococci in human disease. Protection of the blood supply depends upon a screening test that would filter out possibly contaminated donors. Treatment of streptococcal infection was unknown and is still unknown in the case of AIDS. The sulfonamides and antibiotics provide opportunities to prevent scarlet fever. Effective treatment has not influenced the incidence of other sexually transmitted diseases. Many communicable diseases have yielded to vaccines and one, smallpox, has apparently been eradicated as a human disease.
- Subjects
HEALTH risk assessment; AIDS; HIV; PUBLIC health; COMMUNICABLE diseases; STREPTOCOCCAL diseases; BACTERIAL diseases; PREVENTIVE medicine; ANTI-infective agents
- Publication
American Journal of Public Health, 1986, Vol 76, Issue 5, p494
- ISSN
0090-0036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2105/AJPH.76.5.494