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Forty years ago, researchers described the mysterious cases of five gay men who had fallen ill with a pneumonia caused by the bacteria Pneumocystis carinii. Two of the five men had already died.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. Scientists would soon discover that a disease that would come to be known as AIDS was devastating the men’s immune systems.
Three years later, scientists pinned the blame for AIDS on a virus dubbed HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus. Margaret Heckler, the then-U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, said in an April 1984 news conference that a vaccine to build protection against the virus would be ready to test within two years, holding out promise that protection was on its way.
President Joe Biden issued a statement ordering the U.S. intelligence community to "collect and analyze information" on the origin of COVID-19 and report back to him in 90 days.
8 FORT EUSTIS, Va. – Building holistic fitness is the U.S. Army’s primary investment in human performance. U.S. Army Training Doctrine Command’s Leader Professional Development webinar on May 19, 2021, discussed how mental readiness ties into Army fitness overall, while maximizing Soldier potential.
Led by U.S. Army Center for Initial Military Training, Holistic Health and Fitness is a major Army initiative promoting the five domains of readiness required to maintain a Soldier’s overall wellbeing including mental, physical, nutritional, spiritual and sleep. H2F empowers and equips Soldiers to take charge of their health, fitness and well-being in order to maximize individual performance, while preventing injury and disease.
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