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 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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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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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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We know that our ability to effectively communicate, along with our skills in using computers and other information technologies, are very important in our efforts to improve people's health and well being. With these initial investments in four new Centers of Excellence, we hope to identify new tools, approaches, and strategies for managing health records, bringing together disease information from different places, understanding the questions and concerns of patients, and educating people about ways to improve their health. The more we learn about when and how to use health communication and electronic information systems, the better able we'll be to meet the needs of people in the community.
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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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We are preparing for the possibility of infectious diseases that could be spread under conditions of crowding in shelters,
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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.
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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.
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As you recall, we expected a lot of infectious disease problems within the context of the tsunami and were pleasantly surprised,
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The disease is spread from face-to-face contact with known cases of SARS, ... So the average traveler is not going to be at risk.
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We are cautiously optimistic that at least in some parts of the country, influenza may have peaked. But there's still plenty of flu out there, and we're still encouraging people with flu-like illness who meet the criteria for concerns or complications to be sure and seek medical attention if they do develop the illness.
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We expect more cases - definitely. We really can't predict at this point of time where the virus will go next.
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We certainly learned last year that there are always some uncertainties in dealing with influenza.
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We're very early in the flu season this year. We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and one state with local activity, but it's way at the very early stages. So it's difficult to predict how severe the season will be, when it will take off, and when it will peak, and what ultimately the spectrum of impact will be,