Julie Gerberding
Julie Gerberding
Julie Louise Gerberding, M.D., M.P.H., is an American infectious disease expert and the former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Preventionand administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry...
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We also have a public health system that's been gearing up for terrorism and other threats, and really stood pointed and ready to engage in this effort.
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We've no idea if it will become transmissible from one person to another efficiently, but we've got to take the steps now to get prepared for that.
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This water is not going away any time soon.
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Dr. Goldman is a perfect match for the opportunities at Columbia. He is not only a leader of amazing innovations in medical education and biomedical research development, but also a long- standing champion of health promotion and primary prevention.
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While the risk of the situation is very low, we're not taking any chances and we're doing everything we can to make sure that there is no threat to human health.
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We could see an outbreak today, or we may not ever see an outbreak of infectious disease in this context. It is too soon to say.
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Even though we're hoping that we're past the peak for this early phase of the season, in past years we have seen flu come back, ... And we've also seen new strains emerge late in the season. So it's still important to be vigilant.
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We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.
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We don't want volunteers to flood in a discordant way.
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We are very focused on the potential for and outbreak of pandemic influenza. We are looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus as a natural resource to help us understand and predict what we are dealing with.
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There will be some people who may not be able to get vaccine who really need it.
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It would be unusual for measles or rubella or the other childhood-vaccine-preventable diseases to emerge, but many of the people in these shelters are among the people in our country who already experience health disparities, and we're erring on the side of immunizing anyone for whom we have any reason to suspect their vaccination status is not up-to-date.
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This actually is the largest outbreak of mumps that we have seen in this country in more than 20 years.
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Some things we will do include isolating people who are sick and perhaps quarantining their counterparts.