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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I think hospitals did what they could to be prepared but I think it is difficult to prepare for something of this scope and, particularly in New Orleans, the flooding.
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With the Food and Drug Administration we are prepared to manage any food- or water-borne disease. Over the next days to weeks we could see the emergence of mosquito populations and West Nile virus ,
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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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Frankly, we're not as prepared as we need to be.
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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.
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Our impression is the demand probably has increased, but we don't have solid data yet.
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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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People who place large orders for vaccine tend to get preferential treatment by distributors. This is a market distribution problem that's difficult to fix from a government perspective.
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It did exist in New Orleans but they didn't have gasoline for the generators,
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I think it would be naive to say we'd have it in under a year.
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It hasn't reached what we call the epidemic threshold status yet, in terms of deaths from influenza-like illness. But we won't be surprised if that happens given the pattern emerging right now.
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I think it is really important to remember that when this hurricane was coming, we actually didn't know where it was going to go,
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Wherever the birds are going, the mosquitoes are following, and that really does set the stage for transmission across the country,
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Tetanus is something we'd be especially concerned about,