Threading the Needle
When news broke earlier this year of an HIV outbreak in rural Indiana, it stunned many. The Midwestern state seemed an unlikely hotspot, a far cry – figuratively and literally – from places much more associated with the disease.
Among HIV researchers, however, it was not a surprise; the warning signs had been there, multiplying with viral efficiency. In a Perspectives essay published in the New England Journal of Medicine, authors Steffanie A. Strathdee, PhD, associate dean of global health sciences, and Chris Beyrer, MD, at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, describe the sequence of events and behaviors that led to the outbreak and how it (and similar events) can be stopped.
There are reports that the HIV outbreak in Indiana may be peaking. That’s good news. Better news, write Strathdee and Beyrer, would be taking measures to avoid such outbreaks in the first place.
Pictured: A scanning electron micrograph of a hypodermic needle point containing red blood cells. Courtesy of Gise Tileria Palacios.
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