The good news is this is highly effective in blocking smallpox in the laboratory and in a mouse model, ... But the sobering news is it's only been studied in the test tube and mouse model, so we shouldn't get too excited yet. Smallpox is an important disease that we need therapies for, so that's why we're looking at this with great interest. |
The older you get, the greater the probability that you would not only have serious complications, but you would actually die, |
The president has taken a strong personal interest in getting this country prepared for pandemic flu. |
The ultimate expense for any given country naturally would be considerably less than if you had to have a regimen in which you gave the drug every day, |
There are a whole new second and third generation of drugs that hopefully will not only be as powerful as the ones that we have now, but would also be getting around to this concept of cross-resistance, ... In other words, if you have a resistant virus, new drugs might be able to overcome that resistance. |
There are some states that are having now that kind of activity that we didn't see in October, November, December, which tells us what we already know -- that the season is not over. Certainly, the early part of the season was relatively light, much to our great advantage in light of the [vaccine] shortage. |
There have been much, much worse epidemics in previous years, ... But what were seeing now, with the 16,000- to 17,000-plus cases, is something that one must pay attention to. |
There is good reason for excitement because it's finally going to answer the question whether or not a vaccine works, |
There is the possibility, if not likelihood, that we would not yet be finished with this, even with the cases no longer spread in this season or at this particular time, ... So we must be prepared for serious consequences in future years. |
There's a lot of good news, but there's also some very sobering aspects of this that really must prompt us to continue to try and find newer drugs that are as potent or more potent with considerably less toxicity, |
There's a lot of good news, but there's also some very sobering aspects of this that really must prompt us to continue to try and find newer drugs that are as potent or more potent with considerably less toxicity. |
They're important because of the relationship between the HIV pandemic and women's ability to protect themselves in societies that don't allow them that freedom. |
Up to [Monday], there was no evidence at all that there could be -- or is -- an individual in which there might be the reasonable question, 'Did they get infected from a piece of mail that went to their home?' ... That is being intensively investigated right now. |
Vaccines, if they can blunt that initial, enormous burst of virus production early on, even if it doesn't prevent initial infection, may dramatically alter the course of infection, |
We as public health officials ... must assume the worst-case scenario and H5N1 is now giving us a lot of signs that is becoming a little more worrisome, if not a lot a more worrisome, because of the events that are going on, |