1990s
- 1990 - For the first time, CDC reported the possible transmission of HIV from a dentist to a patient in Florida during an invasive procedure.
- 1991 - A CDC study showed that one in five teen deaths is gun-related, and firearm death rates for male teens exceeded those for all natural causes of death.
- 1992 - The National Academy of Sciences reported on a dangerous new phenomenon: the emergence of new and virulent diseases that are resistant to antibiotics.
- 1993 - CDC reported that 200,000 Americans had died of AIDS since the epidemic began.
- 1994 - CDC published a frank brochure on how condoms reduce the transmission of the AIDS virus.
- 1995 - CDC recommended offering HIV testing to all pregnant women.
- 1996 - CDC, in partnership with the International Society for Travel Medicine, initiated the GeoSentinel surveillance network to improve travel medicine.
- 1997 - CDC participated in the nationally televised White House event of the Presidential Apology for the Tuskegee Study.
- 1998 - For the first time since 1981, AIDS was diagnosed in more African-American and Hispanic men than in gay white men.
- 1999 - CDC's Laboratory Response Network was established.
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