Dr. Gerberding
Dr. Gerberding
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Local public health agencies are the front line in all of this. Preparedness, at its heart, is a local phenomenon.
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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.
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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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Currently, fewer than half of health care workers get vaccinated for flu each year. When people who work in hospitals and health care facilities don't get vaccinated, they can pose a serious risk to their patients.
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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 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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The late 50s and early 60s are a crucial time to focus on disease prevention. It's never too late to adopt a healthy lifestyle to enjoy a longer, healthier life.
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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 are increasingly not just going out to solve the outbreak related to the contaminated potato salad at the church picnic, but we are on the front line of global challenges.
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We're doing the same thing others are doing. We have to look at opportunities for us to invest resources to have the best possible impact and at some programs that have been around for long time that may not be doing as well.
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We have no information to suggest any problem with the vaccine.