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" If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before. "
Tom Frieden
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" 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. "
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" I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient. "
Tom Frieden
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" Congress did the right thing with Ebola. They funded us to protect Americans and keep us safer. "
Tom Frieden
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" To me, as a physician, when 1.78 million of our high school kids have tried an e-cigarette, and a lot of them are using them regularly ... that's like watching someone harm hundreds of thousands of children. "
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" The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients. "
Tom Frieden
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" A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop. "
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" Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza. "
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" The Zika virus invades and disrupts the development of the fetal brain, but the effects on the brains of infants and young children are unknown. "
Tom Frieden
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" Physical activity - even if you don't lose an ounce, you'll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It's the closest thing we have to a wonder drug. "
Tom Frieden
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Lose
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" We have to keep up our guard. We won't get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility. "
Tom Frieden
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" 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. "
Tom Frieden
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You
Again
" The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families. "
Tom Frieden
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" We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission. "
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" Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers. "
Tom Frieden
Talk
Health
Risks
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Generation
Tobacco
Started
" Women should use pain medication only as directed and talk with their doctor about all drugs they're taking, including over-the-counter medications. Store prescription drugs in a secure place and properly dispose of them as soon as treatment is over. And never share prescription drugs with anyone else. "
Tom Frieden
Pain
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Women
" The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data. "
Tom Frieden
Best
Health
Decisions
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Health
Know
Control
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Cause
First Time
Time
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
True
Fight
Easy
" E-cigarettes are a tobacco product. "
Tom Frieden
Tobacco
Product
" When my son was little, he asked me: 'Daddy, which is worser, sugar or salt?' I still don't know the answer. "
Tom Frieden
Me
Know
Answer
" We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The vaccine will protect against strains covered in the vaccine, and it may have some effectiveness in the drifted strains. "
Tom Frieden
Flu
Best
Will
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
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" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Smoking
High School
School
" Reducing MRSA infections is critical because these bacteria are difficult to treat and are common in healthcare settings, especially among ICU (intensive care unit) patients. "
Tom Frieden
Healthcare
Difficult
Care
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Will
Health
American
" Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers. "
Tom Frieden
May
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" The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading. "
Tom Frieden
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Area
" More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge. "
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