Dr. Gerberding
Dr. Gerberding
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Until we have electronic health records, we're going to have to do this the old-fashioned way, by Mom's recall sometimes.
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We're doing the same thing others are doing. We have to look at opportunities for us to invest resources to have the best possible impact and at some programs that have been around for long time that may not be doing as well.
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We are increasingly not just going out to solve the outbreak related to the contaminated potato salad at the church picnic, but we are on the front line of global challenges.
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A lot of clinicians have never seen a case of mumps.
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This is not media hype. This is a real issue for us.
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Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.
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Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.
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Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.
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But it really takes a lot of time and a lot of money. There are a lot of black boxes out there where something could emerge and we won't be able to find it.
If you are a bird, this is a pandemic.
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Hope is not a strategy. We have to plan.
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The financial and economic impact of injuries in the United States is serious. However, by expanding our science-based, injury-prevention programs, we can drastically reduce these costs and even more importantly help people live longer and healthier lives.
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The child-bearing years are an exciting time in a woman's life and there are a number of steps they can take to be healthy, benefiting both them and their future child.
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The lesson here is that flu constantly evolves, and we are always just one mutation away from a resistant virus.