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PRO/ALL> Obituary: Myron G. Schultz

Other Human Disease -- Worldwide/UnknownDr. Myron G. Schultz, whose detection of a cluster of pneumonia cases in the early 1980s helped public health officials identify the AIDS epidemic, died on 19 Feb 2016 in Atlanta. He was 81.The cause was pulmonary hypertension, his wife, Selma, said.Dr. Schultz, an infectious disease epidemiologist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, created the Parasitic Diseases Drug Service to provide physicians with medicines to treat rare illnesses. One Read more [...]