Organization
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. public health agency.
- Also known as
- CDC
- The Settlements20 scenes
- The Jar21 scenes
- Without Consent24 scenes
- How are Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and … connected?
Connections 7
intervened in
- Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee 10 Sep 1970 in a 1970 memo its Assistant Chief of the Venereal Disease Branch, Dr. James Lucas, wrote that nothing learned would prevent, find or cure a single case of infectious syphilis Primary record 1
involved in
- Fusarium keratitis outbreak, 2005-2006 counted 180 confirmed cases in 35 states by September 2006; of 118 patients who knew their solution in May, 21 (18%) had used only other makers' products, which the CDC said might reflect incomplete recall Primary record 23
- Fusarium keratitis outbreak, 2005-2006 coordinated the investigation with state and local health departments and the FDA Primary record 4
- 1969 review of the Tuskegee study its director and venereal disease staff attended or recorded Primary record 1
authored
- CDC reports on Fusarium keratitis, 2006 10 Apr 2006 Primary record 24
- CDC report on methylmercury in a skin lightening cream (2019) 20 Dec 2019 Primary record 5
headquartered in
- Atlanta, Georgia Primary record 1
Timeline 3 dates
- 10 Sep 1970 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intervened in Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee
- 10 Apr 2006 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authored CDC reports on Fusarium keratitis, 2006
- 20 Dec 2019 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention authored CDC report on methylmercury in a skin lightening cream (2019)
Proof 5 sources
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Final Report of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ad Hoc Advisory Panel, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 28 Apr 1973.
Primary record
Dr. James Lucas, Assistant Chief of the Venereal Disease Branch, in a memorandum to the Chief of the Venereal Disease Branch dated September 10, 1970
Nothing learned will prevent, find, or cure a single case of infectious syphilis or bring us closer to our basic mission of controlling venereal disease in the United States.
Dr . David J . Sencer Director, NCDC
This data is present in the patient files at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta.
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Update: Fusarium Keratitis — United States, 2005–2006 (MMWR Dispatch), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 19 May 2006.
Primary record
Patients who reported using only products other than MoistureLoc might not have recalled all the contact lens solutions they had used, especially if the period between exposure and interview was lengthy.
As of May 18, 2006, CDC had received reports of 130 confirmed cases of Fusarium keratitis infection
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600 eye fungus suits settled by contact maker, The Associated Press, via NBC News, 31 May 2009.
Scholarship & press
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 180 cases in 35 states from June 2005 through September 2006, when the agency's dedicated surveillance stopped
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Fusarium Keratitis — Multiple States, 2006 (MMWR Dispatch), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 10 Apr 2006.
Primary record
As of April 9, 2006, a total of 109 patients with suspected Fusarium keratitis were under investigation in multiple states.
On March 8, 2006, CDC received a report from an ophthalmologist in New Jersey regarding three patients with contact lens--associated Fusarium keratitis during the preceding 3 months.
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Notes from the Field: Methylmercury Toxicity from a Skin Lightening Cream Obtained from Mexico, California, 2019, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 Dec 2019.
Primary record
This is the first known case of contamination of skin lightening cream with methyl mercury (or any congener, including methylmercury iodide).
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