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...
aware cases expect looking
As clinicians become more familiar, more aware of what we're looking for, we would expect to see more cases just because there are more cases being diagnosed.
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As an infectious disease expert, I've never seen a pathogen emerge and go away on its own, ... We have to expect that sometime, somewhere, this virus is going to rear its ugly head again.
predict situation unable unstable
This is an unstable situation right now. We're unable to predict where this will go.
predict situation unstable
This is an unstable situation right now. We're not reliably able to predict where this will go.
low mainly people threat tragic
This is a tragic virus, but it is mainly there in that province, and is a very low threat to people here in this country.
include people perhaps sick
Some things we will do include isolating people who are sick and perhaps quarantining their counterparts.
bit doses gives slow time
So we're getting off to a bit of a slow start, ... That gives us a little more time to get those doses out there.
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So we really need to help people move beyond the threat of the infectious disease and really think about the sadness and the difficulty that the people who are searching for their relatives are really experiencing in this context.
country largest seen
This actually is the largest outbreak of mumps that we have seen in this country in more than 20 years.
data demand impression solid
Our impression is the demand probably has increased, but we don't have solid data yet.
hurricane remember
I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,
early larger overall questions stages
We may be in the early stages of what could be a larger problem. On the other hand, this is new and we have a lot of questions about the overall spread.
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People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment by distributors. This is a market distribution problem that's difficult to fix from a government perspective.
concerned
Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,