Sandy Ford
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title:
Sandy Ford
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Sandy Ford was a drug technician for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. In April 1981, she identified unusual clusters of young homosexual patients in New York and California with pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma and alerted her supervisor about it. Those patients had HIV/AIDS; pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma were later found to be AIDS-defining diseases. Ford was the first person to identify these clusters and the first to alert health officials about th
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American drug technician, identifier of first known AIDS cluster
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Ford
date created:
2014-03-07T07:12:41Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T20:16:31Z
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