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'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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By unmasking the 1918 virus we are revealing some of the secrets that will help us predict and prepare for the next pandemic.
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We have been able to unmask the 1918 virus, and it is revealing to us some of the secrets that will help us prepare for and predict the next pandemic.
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Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be. We're certainly doing more today than we were even two years ago so we're making fast progress. The steps we're taking now really will save lives and will really help us do more to protect people in the future.
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Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.
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I think hospitals did what they could to be prepared but I think it is difficult to prepare for something of this scope and, particularly in New Orleans, the flooding.
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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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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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This is a very important step forward in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome research.
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This is just an absolutely extraordinary disaster and if we have any frustrations here it is a lack of communications and a lack of situational awareness in these areas that are just completely cut off,
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Once the water subsides, once the basic services are restored, the biggest problems that people face are the mental health problems, ... When will life get back to normal?