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Redfield's Warning

What I Learned (But Couldn't Tell You) Might Save Your Life

Dr. Robert R. Redfield . Former CDC Director

  • no index, table of contents, chapter titles, footnotes, or references
  • Skyhorse Publishing isn't the pinnacle of book publishing

  • 18th CDC director 2018 March 26 to 2021 January 20 - - 33 months 25 days


  • pvii Acknowledgements


  • p001 ONE

  • p008 Three people from Redfield's father's team won the Nobel Prize for medicine. ... "but when I was 5 years old, he died."
  • p009 Teenage job 2 summers (what age?), labwork with Dr. Sol (not Saul) Spiegelman at Columbia

  • p012 Walter Reed more service members with infectious diseases than killed or wounded in combat

  • p016 Ibsen's 1882 "medical" play An Enemy of the People

  • p017 at CDC 1981, patients with unusual symptoms ... HIV/AIDS

  • p022 Walter Reed colleagues "reluctant" to treat AIDs patients (homosexuals and drug abusers)


  • p025 TWO

  • p025 3 Ebola outbreaks during Redfield tenure

  • p026 Public perception AIDs is gay men and IV drug users, 30% of Redfield cases were women, 50% married, half of husbands infected
  • p027 proof that AIDS virus a bidirectional transmitted disease, including heterosexuals
  • p029 physicians should diagnose AIDs (all patients?), not people who are just HIV positive
  • p029 not just a temporary condition
  • p029 American Red Cross tested for AIDS, but did not inform infected donors. "right NOT to know" ???
  • p030 Illegal to put positive HIV test in New York and California patient records
    • example of bleeding during childbirth, jeopardizing delivery team
  • p030 Ibsen's An Enemy of the People

    • Redfield omitted "An" Enemy...
  • p031 major Redfield told by general to not publicise HIV; Redfield responded with three options (1) fire me (2) tell superiors "message conveyed", (3) support me
  • p033 Told AIDS convention that everyone infected would develop disease, booed by audience.
  • p036 "generally accepted consensus" HIV entered humans eating SIV infected monkeys


  • p045 THREE

  • p045 1942-46 "Office of Malaria Control in War Areas" in Atlanta
    • mile-deep mosquito-free zones around 2200 military bases and factories in 32 mostly southern states and Caribbean.
  • p047 CDC discovered causes of toxic shock syndrome and legionnaires' disease

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