H7N9 Influenza: 6 Things You Should Know Now
Image of the H7N9 virus courtesy of Cynthia S. Goldsmith and Thomas Rowe Not long after a newsworthy 2012-2013 influenza season, flu is in the headlines again. On April 1, the World Health Organization...
View ArticleCDC Scientists Produce Speedy Results Analyzing H7N9 Virus
People continue to be infected with H7N9 bird flu in China. Fortunately, there is no evidence that this virus is spreading from person-to-person the way seasonal flu does. However, flu viruses are...
View ArticleArms Race: Getting Ahead of Killer Microbes
This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post. For other posts by CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, visit his blog on The Huffington Post. The SARS epidemic a decade ago showed the world’s...
View ArticleDespite Big Obstacles, Haiti Making Remarkable Progress Eliminating Lymphatic...
This post originally appeared in The Huffington Post. For other posts by CDC Director Tom Frieden, MD, MPH, visit his blog on The Huffington Post. Haiti is not an easy place to fight disease even in...
View ArticleCDC’s Top Ten: 5 Health Achievements in 2013 and 5 Health Threats in 2014
As the year comes to a close, CDC, America’s health protection agency, looks back at top five health concerns in 2013 and previews the five health threats that loom for 2014. CDC works 24/7 saving...
View ArticleWorld Polio Day: How Far We’ve Come, What’s Left to Do
Reposted from Voice of America on October 23, 2015 By TOM FRIEDEN, MD Today, on World Polio Day, we honor the sacrifices of the many people around the world who have brought us to a unique point in...
View ArticleDr. Tom Frieden: Protecting the World from the Next Pandemic
Reposted from GE Reports on October 29, 2015 It wasn’t just luck that the Ebola epidemic didn’t spread once it reached Lagos. Here’s what other countries can learn from Nigeria’s effective response. A...
View ArticleCDC Director: A global plan to prevent, detect, and respond to the next...
Reposted from FOX NEWS Opinion on November 17, 2015 Can the nations of the world work together to stop the next deadly pandemic – before it happens? Is it possible to make the world safe and secure...
View ArticleCDC Chief Frieden: World must act now to stop drug-resistant TB
Reposted from Fox News on January 8, 2016. With a half million new cases each year, multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is spreading around the globe. The world must act decisively. There can...
View ArticleCDC director: What we’re doing about the Zika virus
Reposted from CNN on February 1, 2016. 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...
View ArticleCDC Chief: Zika is coming. To fully protect Americans we must have the funds...
Reposted from Fox News on April 1, 2016 At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention we’ve learned to expect the unexpected – but the ongoing Zika outbreak has caused dangers from a mosquito bite...
View ArticleProtecting the Health of Americans by Improving the Use of Antibiotics
Reposted from The Healthcare Blog on May 4, 2016 Few appreciate the threat of antibiotic resistance to human medicine more than readers of this blog. You know antibiotics as lifesaving “miracle” drugs...
View ArticleThe Private Sector Is Stepping Up to Combat the Zika Virus—Congress Should Too
Reposted from the White House Blog on June 6, 2016 Imagine this: You’re standing by a lake and you see someone drowning. You have the ability to save that person, but your hands are tied. Doctors who...
View ArticleFading Ebola epidemic
Reposted from The State News on July 13, 2016 What the fading Ebola epidemic can teach us about the looming Zika crisis As the world’s worst Ebola epidemic fades in the rearview mirror of history, it’s...
View ArticleCDC and NIH officials: How not to fight the Zika virus
By Tom Frieden and Anthony S. Fauci Reposted from The Washington Post on August 31, 2016 Tom Frieden is director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Anthony S. Fauci is director of the...
View ArticleWe must protect pregnant women from the Zika virus
By Dr. Tom Frieden and Heidi Murkoff Reposted from The Miami Herald on August 29, 2016 Earlier this month, moms around the world celebrated #BumpDay, a day devoted to maternal health sponsored by the...
View ArticleA Path to Global Health Security
Reposted from The White House on October 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM ET by Amy Pope, Heather Higginbottom, Gayle Smith, and Dr. Tom Frieden Summary: World leaders converge to advance the Global Health Security...
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