Outpatient Visits for Infectious Diseases in the United States, 1980 Through 1996

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Abstract
FOR MOST OF the 20th century, industrialized societies have experienced a steady decline in the burden of infectious diseases. However, experience in the last decade has shown that this trend may have stopped. Events such as the epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus, the resurgence of tuberculosis, and outbreaks of newly recognized diseases such as cryptosporidiosis and hantavirus pulmonary syndrome have raised the public's awareness of the threat of infectious diseases and have spawned public health efforts to monitor and control emerging and reemerging infections.1-4