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...
prepared steps
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.
last people protect step stress tremendous
but for people under tremendous stress from the circumstances of the last days, we want to take every step to protect them.
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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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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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This is a very important step forward in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome research.
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This year's flu season is not off to an aggressive start. We have less flu in the country than we did this time last year,
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We're seeing very sporadic activity in seven states, and local activity in one state.
time water
This water is not going away any time soon.
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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,
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We don't want volunteers to flood in a discordant way.
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We are very focused on the potential for and outbreak of pandemic influenza. We are looking back to the 1918 pandemic virus as a natural resource to help us understand and predict what we are dealing with.
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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.