BY MIKE WILLIAMS
Epidemiological Pioneer Wayne Shandera wants to set the record straight.
The physician and Rice alumnus was not alone in discovering HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, which has infected more than 60 million people and killed nearly 30 million worldwide. He was, he clarified, one of a small group of Los Angeles-based physicians who identified the first serious infection associated with what later became known as AIDS. But Shandera’s role in the initial report to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and its publication, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), is well-known. For that, the Texas native received nationwide attention on the report’s 30th anniversary this summer. 34
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