Toxic shock syndrome -- 1980

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• Personal Author:
  Rasmussen, Sonja A. ; Shands, Kathryn N.
• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  Dr. Rasmussen Welcome to Defining Moments in MMWR History. I'm your host, Dr. Sonja ; Rasmussen, Editor-in-Chief of the MMWR. ; In the late 1970s and early 1980s, an outbreak of a disease called Toxic Shock Syndrome made healthy women sick. CDC's disease detectives helped unravel the link between Toxic Shock Syndrome and high-absorbency tampons. ; Today, I'm talking with Dr. Kathy Shands, former chief of the Toxic Shock Syndrome Task Force and one of CDC's original disease detectives who worked on this outbreak. Dr. Shands received a U.S. public health service commendation medal for her work on Toxic Shock Syndrome. Thank you for coming, Kathy. ; DefiningMoments_ToxicShock.pdf
• Subjects:
  • History, 20th Century
  • Menstrual Hygiene Products
  • Population Surveillance
  • Public Health
  • Public Health / history
  • Shock, Septic
• Source:
  Defining moments in MMWR history
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Podcasts
• Pages in Document:
  3 numbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/49725/cdc_49725_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 244.11 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• Main Document Checksum:
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