Dr. Gerberding
Dr. Gerberding
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We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.
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This really is the first credible evidence of a biological basis for chronic fatigue syndrome. It reflects the remarkable confluence of a number of scientific advances that are coming to bear on a problem of great importance to many people in the U.S. It's an important step forward in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome research.
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We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.
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We will do everything we can to help quench it at its source.
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We certainly will not see a complete end of mumps when this cycle is broken.
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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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I don't think we were expecting it to be so dramatic so quickly this year. We just didn't feel it was responsible to wait three more days during a holiday weekend to let clinicians know.
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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 have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.
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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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We have more than 1,000 cases reported from eight states, and we also have additional cases undergoing investigation in seven more states.
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We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.
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We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.