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 certainly learned last year that there are always some uncertainties in dealing with influenza.
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We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.
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We're sorry we have another frustrating year for some people.
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Fortunately, this year the flu season is not off to an early start, and there is plenty of time for people to get their shots,
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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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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?
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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.