HHV-6 New York Native Flashback #11
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has been criticized, by journalists, health activists, and members of Congress, for the almost imperceptible progress it has made in developing programs to define the parameters of the ongoing epidemic of Chronic Immune Dysfunction Syndrome (CIDS) . An editorial in the January/February issue of the CFIDS Chronicle cites two devastating remarks downplaying the importance of the illness by CDC's Dr. Gary Holmes, who is in charge of the CDC's CIDS efforts: Holmes has labeled CIDS a "wastebasket disease," and stated in an April 1988 Health article, "A number of heads of departments of infectious disease at major universities think this is a disease of neurotic women."
--Neenyah Ostrom, New York Native, May 15, 1989
--Neenyah Ostrom, New York Native, May 15, 1989