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" As director of the CDC, one of the best parts of my job is announcing good news. "
Job
Parts
News
" At CDC, we work 24/7 to save lives and protect people. "
Save
Protect
Work
" A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop. "
Merit
Nobel Prize
Just
" Between 2000 and 2010, malaria mortality rates fell by 26 percent around the world. According to the latest World Health Organization estimates, there were about 219 million cases of malaria in 2010 and an estimated 660,000 deaths. "
Percent
Organization
World
" CDC is supporting community efforts by establishing competitive grants to support local programs to help individuals and families to get healthy and stay healthy. "
Support
Stay
Help
" Cigars, cigarettes, and hookah tobacco are all smoked tobacco - addictive and deadly. We need effective action to protect our kids from struggling with a lifelong addiction to nicotine. "
Action
Addiction
Protect
" Communities across the nation play an important role in leading the way toward healthier families, and the Affordable Care Act helps make prevention an important priority for every community. "
Nation
Care
Play
" Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer. "
The Right Thing
Congress
Right
" Controlling mosquitos is tough. It's not quick; it's not easy. It requires work day in and day out to track where mosquitos are and to apply safely the appropriate mosquito control methods. "
Quick
Easy
Day
" Ebola so scary and so unfamiliar, it's really important to outline what the facts are and that we know how to control it. We control it by traditional public health measures. We do that, and Ebola goes away. "
Health
Know
Control
" E-cigarettes are a tobacco product. "
Tobacco
Product
" Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zika is spreading. "
Health
Risk
Thinking
" Flu can be serious, and it kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Vaccination is easier and more convenient than ever, so get yourself and your family protected. "
Year
Flu
Family
" From all the available evidence, the body has an excellent immune response to Zika. Therefore, once you get it once, you will never get it again. "
Never
You
Again
" Haiti is not an easy place to fight disease, even in the best of times. That was true even before a devastating earthquake ravaged Haiti's capital and largest city, Port-au-Prince, in 2010. "
True
Fight
Easy
" Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers. "
Talk
Health
Risks
" Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years. "
Health
Quality
Life
" I eat a lot of fruit because if I fill up on strawberries or an apple, then I'll have one small piece of cheesecake rather than two big pieces. "
Apple
Two
Small
" If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before. "
Just
Measles
Well
" I love... cheesecake in New York. I love whatever is sweet. "
Whatever
Sweet
New York
" I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient. "
Society
Practice
Health
" In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states - Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin - already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking. "
Smoking
High School
School
" In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Importantly, isolating countries won't keep Ebola contained and away from American shores. "
Will
Health
American
" In addition to pain, disability, and disfigurement, lymphatic filariasis carries a heavy social cost. Those disfigured by the disease are often shunned. Women are often rejected by their families. Both men and women can have difficulty finding jobs. "
Disability
Pain
Men
" I think we didn't recognize how hard it would be to care for someone with Ebola who was desperately ill in the U.S., and how much hands-on nursing care there would be, and we didn't expect two nurses to get infected. "
Hard
Expect
Think
" It is remarkable how surprising Zika has been. This is the first time we have had a mosquito-borne infection that can cause a devastating birth defect. "
Cause
First Time
Time
" It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently. "
Road
Unless
End
" It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations. "
Attention
Media
Never
" I've treated so many adults who are desperate - desperate - to get off tobacco. They all started as kids. I see the industry getting another generation of our kids addicted. "
Generation
Tobacco
Started
" Know that the tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus - sometimes spreads viruses that spread like Zika, so it may be able to spread Zika. "
Tiger
Know
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