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 do have disease detectives who are working to study some features of the outbreak so we can learn as the virus spreads from community to community.
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It is too early to tell if it's SARS. Anyone with pneumonia and a travel history is going to be under investigation. ... If you've not gone there, don't be concerned about it at this point.
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the big picture this year, unlike last year, is that there are plenty of doses and plenty of time for people to get vaccinated.
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The biggest challenge of all is going to be maintaining the chronic-care services to the people who had them before the hurricane ever hit,
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The best protection against the mumps is the vaccine. We have seen that work successfully in the past. So we hope that will be successful this time.
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It's a problem that is having an unusually high human toll this year,
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It's at best embarrassing and at worst tragic that less than 50% of healthcare workers get vaccinated annually,
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The water is full of sewage, ... cooperate with the evacuation effort and leave.
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It's a vulnerable population, and the last thing they need to deal with in the context of all the other difficulties is a flu outbreak.
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It's a fine line between outbreak or epidemic,
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The potential for infecting large numbers of people is great,
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What we need to do is get them where we need them the most, that's our challenge right now, ... But we're very optimistic that the seniors and very young children and those who need the doses will be able to get them.
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We're asking those who provide influenza to give the first available doses to people in our priority groups ... Getting an influenza vaccine is the best way to protect yourself and your patients against this disease,
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We might actually end up with the most-ever influenza vaccine produced in this country,