Legionnaires’ Disease
What is 1976?
The year that doctors first reported the unusual illnesses that led to the recognition of AIDS
What is 1981?
The public health agency that investigated both Legionnaires’ disease and AIDS
What is the CDC?
The organization formed in Nee York City in 1987 to demand action against AIDS
What is ACT UP?
The city the 1976 Legionnaires’ disease outbreak occurred in
What is Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?
What AIDS stands for
What is acquired immunodeficiency syndrome?
Scientists who investigate disease patterns and outbreaks
What are Epidemiologists?
Young hemophilia patient that became a symbol of HIV/AIDS awareness
Who is Ryan White?
The amount of people that died during the 1976 Outbreak
What is 29 people?
The virus that causes AIDS
What is Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)?
What investigators tested from previous outbreaks to help confirm Legionella infections
What are frozen blood samples?
The Surgeon General who released an important AIDS report in 1986
Who is Dr. C. Everett Koop?
Of the 182 people identified as cases, this many were hospitalized
What is 147 people?
The city that established the first AIDS clinic in the United States
What is San Francisco?
The blood test that was licensed to detect HIV antibodies
What is the ELISA test?
What is 1990?
The bacterium that causes Legionnaires’ disease
What is Legionella?
The first drug approved the treat HIV in 1987
What is AZT?
The term for a disease outbreak that spreads across countries or continents
What is a pandemic?
The program did President George W. Bush launch in 2003 to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide
What is PEPFAR?