Dr. Gerberding
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Dr. Gerberding
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The lesson here is that flu constantly evolves, and we are always just one mutation away from a resistant virus.
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I don't think we were expecting it to be so dramatic so quickly this year. We just didn't feel it was responsible to wait three more days during a holiday weekend to let clinicians know.
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The financial and economic impact of injuries in the United States is serious. However, by expanding our science-based, injury-prevention programs, we can drastically reduce these costs and even more importantly help people live longer and healthier lives.
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This is not media hype. This is a real issue for us.
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This really is the first credible evidence of a biological basis for chronic fatigue syndrome. It reflects the remarkable confluence of a number of scientific advances that are coming to bear on a problem of great importance to many people in the U.S. It's an important step forward in the field of chronic fatigue syndrome research.
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We know the virus is changing. We're watching little mutations occur all the time -- that's what flu viruses do.
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We have more than 1,000 cases reported from eight states, and we also have additional cases undergoing investigation in seven more states.
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We're watching a very specific virus move very quickly through a very large population of birds and continuously evolve. That's worrisome.
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Until we have electronic health records, we're going to have to do this the old-fashioned way, by Mom's recall sometimes.
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We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.