Bad Blood Again
First Syphilis, Then AIDS - A Whole New Game (Pub. Jan 2009, ISBN 978-1-4389-4039-7)
Bad Blood Again the Book - is a novel revealing for the first time investigational techniques employed by trained public health workers as they go about managing the spread of infectious syphilis. That dedicated and often dangerous work took on a new life when the AIDS epidemic began terrifying the nation beginning in the early 1980s. Pugh weaves in his own experiences as a VD investigator and reveals in considerable detail the sexual excesses surrounding the juggernaut of AIDS in the gay community.
Join Doug Given and Buddy Riley, two skilled investigators, as they end their service in syphilis control and begin a journey into AIDS epidemiology. The questions CDC has charged them with answering are: Is AIDS a venereal disease and if so will proven syphilis case finding technology be effective in controlling it.
Bad Blood Again the Screenplay - completed in early 2013 sets the reader up from investigating the spread of syphilis to analyzing the juggernaut of AIDS in early 1983. From Pennsylvania, to Harrisburg, to Atlanta, to San Francisco, Rick shows how similar and dissimilar the two venereal diseases are. He resolves conflict(somewhat) with is vacuous boss, but meets opposition in gay communities as he outlines the steps necessary to begin the end to AIDS as a national tragedy.
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Bad Blood Again the Book - is a novel revealing for the first time investigational techniques employed by trained public health workers as they go about managing the spread of infectious syphilis. That dedicated and often dangerous work took on a new life when the AIDS epidemic began terrifying the nation beginning in the early 1980s. Pugh weaves in his own experiences as a VD investigator and reveals in considerable detail the sexual excesses surrounding the juggernaut of AIDS in the gay community.
Join Doug Given and Buddy Riley, two skilled investigators, as they end their service in syphilis control and begin a journey into AIDS epidemiology. The questions CDC has charged them with answering are: Is AIDS a venereal disease and if so will proven syphilis case finding technology be effective in controlling it.
Bad Blood Again the Screenplay - completed in early 2013 sets the reader up from investigating the spread of syphilis to analyzing the juggernaut of AIDS in early 1983. From Pennsylvania, to Harrisburg, to Atlanta, to San Francisco, Rick shows how similar and dissimilar the two venereal diseases are. He resolves conflict(somewhat) with is vacuous boss, but meets opposition in gay communities as he outlines the steps necessary to begin the end to AIDS as a national tragedy.
Buy this book at Amazon.com