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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It hasn't reached what we call the epidemic threshold status yet, in terms of deaths from influenza-like illness. But we won't be surprised if that happens given the pattern emerging right now.
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Well, we're just at the beginning of the flu season, so we can't predict whether this is going to be a serious year or not, ... We have 20 million more doses of flu vaccine to get out there, and our goal is to get those doses to the people who need it the most before the season really speeds up.
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We're watching the situation with the avian flu very carefully, taking the steps that need to be taken now to help prepare and, most importantly, detect the transfer of that virus into people, ... But it is a very worrisome situation.
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With the Food and Drug Administration we are prepared to manage any food- or water-borne disease. Over the next days to weeks we could see the emergence of mosquito populations and West Nile virus ,
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Wherever the birds are going, the mosquitoes are following, and that really does set the stage for transmission across the country,
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We know this is not safe; we know there are many common intestinal illnesses that can be transmitted by contact with the water.
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We are not recommending mandatory testing in any group of people under any circumstance. We're simply treating an HIV test like any other medical test that would be part of good quality medical care.
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We haven't identified anything about this strain that's different from strains in the other areas.
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We believe the health hazard from this water is still a very important threat for people who have yet to evacuate, ... The results from the EPA indicate the water is full of sewage. We know it's not safe.
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Today, CDC has followed suit and has published the sequence of the virus.
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What we don't want is for people to flood in in a disorganized way,
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What we don't have, and what we hope we never have, is sustained human to human transmission like we do with seasonal influenza.
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Everybody has a colon. Everyone over 50 needs to get their colon checked.
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People just don't know that you can have colon cancer and be completely asymptomatic and healthy.