Sandy Ford
American drug technician, identifier of first known AIDS cluster / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the Centers for Disease Control technician. For the rockabilly singer, see The Flying Saucers.
Sandy Ford (born Sandra Lee Garrison, July 11, 1950 – April 11, 2015) was a drug technician for the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. In April 1981, she identified unusual clusters of young homosexual patients in New York and California with pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma and alerted her supervisor about it. Those patients had HIV/AIDS; pneumocystis pneumonia and Kaposi's sarcoma were later found to be AIDS-defining diseases.
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Born | Sandra Lee Garrison (1950-07-11)July 11, 1950 Fresno, California, U.S. |
Died | April 11, 2015(2015-04-11) (aged 64) |
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Employer | Centers for Disease Control |
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Ford was the first person to identify these clusters and the first to alert health officials about the coming epidemic.[1][2]