Data show top killer of men 25-44 is AIDS - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also find it is the fourth leading killer for women of the same age grade - Brief Article

Jet, Nov 29, 1993

AIDS has become the top killer of American men aged 25 to 44, as expected, and the fourth-leading killer of women in the same age group, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta said in a recent report.

The agency said AIDS had struck 339,250 Americans since the start of the epidemic in 1981 and had killed 204,390 of them.

The CDC added three diseases--recurrent pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis and advanced cervical cancer--and the severe disappearance of disease-fighting blood cells to the list of symptoms which are used by physicians to determine when people with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, progress to full-blown AIDS.

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