Deadly Disease Timeline 1991 - 2000 |
| Year | disease (findings) / outbreaks | scientific reasearch/cure | Medicines | Articles | ||||||
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| 1991 | 10 million people worldwide estimated to be HIV-positive, including 1 million in U.S.; more than 36,000 Americans have died of AIDS since the late 1970s | 
Aids Ribbon Photographic Print Katz, Paul Buy at AllPosters.com |
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| 1992 | The first clinical trials using combinations of multiple
drugs begin
FDA begins accelerated approval of experimental AIDS drugs |
First vaccine for hepatitis A | The Canadian Diabetes Association's Clinical Practice Guidelines published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. | 
The American Diabetes Association/the American Dietetic Association Family Cookbook |
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| 1993 | U.S. annual AIDS deaths approach 45,000 120,000 cattle have been diagnosed with BSE in Britain. US Congressional Office of Technology Assessment (1993) estimated that between 130,000 and 3 million deaths could follow the aerosolized release of 100 kg of anthrax spore upwind of the Washington, D.C. area. The lethality would match or exceed that of a hydrogen bomb. |
Survive Anthrax: How to Prepare Your Family for an Anthrax Terrorist Attack |
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| 1994 | Cholera outbreak in South America | Rickets : The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves a vitamin D-based topical treatment for psoriasis, called calcipotriol. | 
Stories in the Time of Cholera: Racial Profiling During a Medical Nightmare |
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| 1995 | Stephen Churchill, 19, becomes the first victim of a new version of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease | Saquinavir, the first protease inhibitor (which reduces the ability of AIDS to spread to new cells) is approved | 
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease |
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| 1996 | Robert Gallo's discovery that a natural compound known as chemokines can block HIV and halt the progression of AIDS is hailed by Science magazine as one of that year's most important scientific breakthroughs. | 
A Mother Infected with the Aids Virus Holds Her Child Photographic Print Buy at AllPosters.com |
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| 1997 | 
This Artwork is Called Lyme Disease Trail Photographic Print Klein,... Buy at AllPosters.com |
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| 1998 | First vaccine for rotavirus First vaccine for Lyme disease |
Coping With Lyme Disease |
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| 1999 | Since it was first identified in the United States in 1999,
West Nile Virus has killed more than 650 people, and caused illness in more
than 16,000. |
The role of chemokines in protection from progression of HIV infection to AIDS is changing the medical understanding of AIDS | 
Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Peer-Reviewed Journal Tracking and Analyzing Disease Trends; West Nile Virus |
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