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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

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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."
- Robert Ray Redfield Sr. 1923-1956, surgeon and cellular physiologist
- Obituary 1956 Jan 5
- Redfield Jr. born 1951 July 10 so he was 4 years 5 months 26 days old when his father 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
- in DR Congo, US cases were in 2014
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.
- Wikipedia HIV article says prompt treatment zeros risk
- Undetectable = Untransmittable
p036 "generally accepted consensus" HIV entered humans eating SIV infected monkeys

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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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p131 SEVEN
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  . in DR Congo, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebola_virus_cases_in_the_United_States | US cases were in 2014 ]]
 .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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ibsen | Ibsen's ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Enemy_of_the_People | 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.
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS | Wikipedia HIV ]] article says prompt treatment zeros risk
  . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undetectable_%3D_Untransmittable | Undetectable = Untransmittable ]]
 .p036 "generally accepted consensus" HIV entered humans eating [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_immunodeficiency_virus | SIV ]] infected monkeys
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  . mile-deep mosquito-free zones around 2200 military bases and factories in 32 mostly southern states and Caribbean.
 .p047 CDC discovered causes of  [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_shock_syndrome | toxic shock syndrome ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease | legionnaires' disease ]]