Keiji Fukuda
Keiji Fukuda
Keiji Fukuda is an American physician with expertise in influenza epidemiology. In March 2009, Fukuda was appointed Assistant Director-General for Health, Security and Environment ad interim for the World Health Organization, and as of September 2010 he holds this position permanently. The media have referred to him as the WHO "flu chief" during the 2009 swine flu outbreak. Fukuda came to the WHO in 2005. He first worked as Coordinator of the Global Influenza Program from 2006 to 2008 and...
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This has never been attempted before. There is a very good chance that we will fail and that we will not be able to stop it.
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It just points out the need for more information. What really is critical is understanding whether the way we are using the drugs contributes to that (resistance).
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It is still quite early in our influenza season and we expect activity to pick up in the coming weeks. It is definitely not too late to get your flu shot if you have not received one.
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We have to monitor the situation to see whether resistance becomes a big problem or not.
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We're speculating on something I don't know the answer to. We just don't know that, because we haven't established that there is that transmission. But it is unlikely that you would be standing around a chicken and get the influenza virus that way.
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People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.
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We will develop a roster of people who have received a great deal of training on containment procedures.