American drug technician, identifier of first known AIDS cluster
This article is about the Centers for Disease Control technician. For the rockabilly singer, see The Flying Saucers.
Sandy Ford
Ford holding vials of pentamidine
Born
Sandra Lee Garrison
(1950-07-11)July 11, 1950
Fresno, California, U.S.
Died
April 11, 2015(2015-04-11) (aged 64)
Alma mater
Fresno City College
California State University, Fresno
Employer
Centers for Disease Control
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.
Ford was the first person to identify these clusters and the first to alert health officials about the coming epidemic.[1][2]
^Schultz, Myron G.; Bloch, Alan B. (2016). "In Memoriam: Sandy Ford (1950–2015) - Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016 - Emerging Infectious Diseases journal - CDC". Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22 (4): 764–765. doi:10.3201/eid2204.151336. PMC 4806958. PMID 27358969. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
^Shilts, Randy (27 November 2007). And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition. St. Martin's Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4299-3039-0. Retrieved 24 May 2023.
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