1983 – CDC established a Violence Epidemiology Branch to apply public health prevention strategies to child abuse, homicide, and suicide. 1984 – CDC studied Vietnam veterans who were exposed to Agent Orange during combat and later fathered babies; no increased risk of birth defects was found. 1985 – With other government organizations, CDC sponsored the first International AIDS Conference, which took place in Atlanta. 1986 – The Office on Smoking and Health, which targets the nation's primary preventable health problem, became part of CDC. 1987 – The National Center for Health Statistics is transferred into CDC. Its earliest predecessor was created in 1899. 1987 – CDC reported that about 7,000 workers die on the job annually; 42 percent of female workers who die on the job are murdered. 1988 – CDC established the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. 1989 – CDC reported the 100,000th AIDS case in the United States. 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. 2000s 2000 – CDC identified an outbreak of HIV-related tuberculosis among young transgender people in New York and Boston. 2001 – CDC learned of the first of the 2001 anthrax attacks. 2002 – CDC reported that U.S. newborn HIV infections were down 80 percent since 1981. 2003 – Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)