We can never be totally 100 percent prepared. But we're making extraordinary progress over the past year. |
We have a long way to go. |
We have to see if it is true and if we can do anything about it, |
We now know that these reservoirs are established very early in the course of infection. |
we're just not that far down the manufacturing process. |
We've still got to take it very seriously, and be very vigorous, because it does have the potential of getting out of control, |
What this paper shows is you can make a vaccine against bird flu. It also points out a lot of weaknesses in the system. It's an important wake-up call. |
What we learned from the mail-service anthrax attack of 2001 is that you really have to look at the vulnerable people along the chain of exposure. |
When you have countries with such a large population, ... if you have one percent of the population infected and it doubles, you're looking at 20 million people. |
With all of these drugs, some more than others, there's the development of resistance. So it's certainly not a cure, but it was a dramatic turnaround. |
Would it be the best thing that we spend money to have a vaccine for pandemic flu that never happened? ... That would be a great outcome as far as I'm concerned. |
You have to play catch-up in development. |