Infectious disease expert reflects on 50-year career

Donald Blair, MD, is a professor of medicine specializing in infectious disease, and he is celebrating 50 years at Upstate. He saw patients in Ethiopia with some of the world's last cases of smallpox at the start of his career, learned about the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS in real time, and has concerns about how deadly bird flu could be if it spreads to more humans. In this interview he reflects on how the specialty has changed over five decades.
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