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" 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
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" 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
Disability
Pain
Men
" 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
" Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most. "
Tom Frieden
Government
Poor
World
" E-cigarettes are a tobacco product. "
Tom Frieden
Tobacco
Product
" Know that the tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus - sometimes spreads viruses that spread like Zika, so it may be able to spread Zika. "
Tom Frieden
Tiger
Know
Like
" 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
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Apple
Two
Small
" As director of the CDC, one of the best parts of my job is announcing good news. "
Tom Frieden
Job
Parts
News
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Attention
Media
Never
" Mosquito control in the United States is very much a local and state activity. Some states have excellent programs, other states not so much. It's one of the reasons it's so urgent to identify and spread best practices to try and track and reduce mosquito populations. "
Tom Frieden
Control
Activity
Try
" The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies. "
Tom Frieden
Progress
Still
American
" Pregnant women who are in places where Zika is spreading should do everything they can to avoid mosquito bites. And we, as a society, need to do everything we can to control Zika. That means learning more about it; that means controlling mosquitoes more effectively. That means achieving a vaccine. "
Tom Frieden
Control
Women
Society
" Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child. "
Tom Frieden
Boots
Child
First
" We do prioritize addressing MDR-TB. We have done that for more than 20 years; that's why we've been able to drastically reduce U.S. cases of MDR-TB. "
Tom Frieden
Prioritize
Why
Years
" Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers. "
Tom Frieden
May
Monitoring
Step
" Some hospitals screen all ICU patients and isolate those with MRSA, a process that can be challenging for both caregivers and patients. "
Tom Frieden
Process
Some
Those
" Zika is spread by mosquitos. They are tough to control. It will bite four or five people at one blood meal. They can breed in the amount of water it takes to fill up a bottle cap or, theoretically, even a drop of water. You have to get rid of maybe 90% of them or more before you protect people. "
Tom Frieden
Meal
Water
You
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Year
Flu
Family
" What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic. "
Tom Frieden
Flu
Disease
Risk
" 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
Society
Practice
Health
" A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop. "
Tom Frieden
Merit
Nobel Prize
Just
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Health
Quality
Life
" 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
World
Result
Seeing
" I love... cheesecake in New York. I love whatever is sweet. "
Tom Frieden
Whatever
Sweet
New York
" Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary. "
Tom Frieden
Science
Health
Nature
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Me
School
High School
" The bottom line is that Ebola is hard to treat, and when the first patient ever with Ebola came to the United States, we thought the guidelines would protect the health care workers. "
Tom Frieden
Care
Treat
Thought
" It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently. "
Tom Frieden
Road
Unless
End
" 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. "
Tom Frieden
Percent
Organization
World
" 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