Dr. Gerberding
Dr. Gerberding
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Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.
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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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These are really tough problems, and we don't have an answer we can hand you in a cookbook.
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Hope is not a strategy. We have to plan.
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Part of the reason why we hoped to have full appropriation committed ... was to warrant to the manufacturers that we are serious.
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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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We will not be surprised if we see more people affected either in college context or as students spend time with their families or with their community friends. We will continue to see an extension of this outbreak into the community level.
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We've got to get a vaccine supply that we can count on. We've got to get more and better antiviral drugs. And we've got to have every single link in our public health system as strong as it can be so we can detect this problem and do the things at the local community level that we need to do to save lives.