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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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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Even though we're hoping that we're past the peak for this early phase of the season, in past years we have seen flu come back, ... And we've also seen new strains emerge late in the season. So it's still important to be vigilant.
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This actually is the largest outbreak of mumps that we have seen in this country in more than 20 years.
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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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Right now in the shelters where most of the people are located we have seen sporadic reports of gastrointestinal illness,
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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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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?
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I'm sorry that this is becoming a political issue. This is really a health issue,
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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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That's a good thing because it gives us time to get the vaccine out there.
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The water is full of sewage, ... cooperate with the evacuation effort and leave.