9.5–13,468

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Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

–13,468 Death rate per 100,000, 5.55. CDC. CDC WONDER on-line Database, ICD 9, 042-044

Alabama 72 1.79 death rate Montana 4 0.50 death rate
Alaska 7 1.79 Nebraska 15 0.96
Arizona 110 3.19 Nevada 58 5.66 (above avg.)
Arkansas 30 1.28 New Hampshire 13 1.23
California 2,648 9.51 (above avg.) New Jersey 1,056 13.75 “
Colorado 133 4.08 New Mexico 30 2.03
Connecticut 145 4.46 New York 3,425 19.14 “
Delaware 26 4.08 NYC 3,159 Rosner 1991, p. 38.
District of Co. 179 28.01 “ North Carolina 143 2.23
Florida 1,101 9.16 “ North Dakota 3 0.45
Georgia 325 5.23 Ohio 182 1.69
Hawaii 44 4.11 Oklahoma 60 1.69
Idaho 8 0.81 Oregon 69 2.55
Illinois 350 3.07 Pennsylvania 368 3.11
Indiana 74 1.35 Rhode Island 36 3.63
Iowa 22 0.80 South Carolina 95 2.81
Kansas 47 1.92 South Dakota 2 0.29
Kentucky 37 1.00 Tennessee 68 1.42
Louisiana 200 1.01 Texas 944 5.67 “
Maine 12 1.01 Utah 33 1.97
Maryland 202 4.42 Vermont 7 1.30
Massachusetts 241 4.06 Virginia 195 3.28
Michigan 161 1.75 Washington 148 3.26
Minnesota 72 1.70 West Virginia 21 1.13
Mississippi 63 2.43 Wisconsin 58 1.21
Missouri 123 2.43 Wyoming 3 0.63

Narrative Information

CDC: “HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome or AIDS if not treated. Unlike some other viruses, the human body can’t get rid of HIV completely, even with treatment. So once you get HIV, you have it for life. HIV attacks the body’s immune system, specifically the CD4 cells (T cells), which help the immune system fight off infections. Untreated, HIV reduces the number of CD4 cells (T cells) in the body, making the person more likely to get other infections or infection-related cancers. Over time, HIV can destroy so many of these cells that the body can’t fight off infections and disease. These opportunistic infections or cancers take advantage of a very weak immune system and signal that the person has AIDS, the last stage of HIV infection.

“No effective cure currently exists, but with proper medical care, HIV can be controlled. The medicine used to treat HIV is called antiretroviral therapy or ART. If people with HIV take ART as prescribed, their viral load (amount of HIV in their blood) can become undetectable. If it stays undetectable, they can live long, healthy lives and have effectively no risk of transmitting HIV to an HIV-negative partner through sex. Before the introduction of ART in the mid-1990s, people with HIV could progress to AIDS in just a few years. Today, someone diagnosed with HIV and treated before the disease is far advanced can live nearly as long as someone who does not have HIV.” (CDC. About HIC/AIDS. 12-2-2019.)

Sources

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About HIC/AIDS. 12-2-2019. Accessed 3-31-2020 at: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/whatishiv.html

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC WONDER on-line Database, Compressed Mortality File 1979-1998. ICD-9 Code 042-044 (Human immunodeficiency virus infection) 1987. Accessed 3-31-2020 at: http://wonder.cdc.gov/cmf-icd9.html

Rosner, David (Ed.). Hives of Sickness: Public Health and Epidemics in New York City. Rutgers University Press, 1991, 236 pages. Partially digitized by Google. Accessed 3-29-2018 at: http://books.google.com/books?id=o34QxI6lHwAC&pg=PA70&dq=1916+Polio+Epidemic&ei=Cy5DSZWvMIXAMpqalOYN#PPP7,M1