Intelligence training, and ive worked in the control of diseases Communicable Diseases and others since 1990. Ebola spreads only by direct contact with a patient who is sick with the disease or has died from it, or with their body fluids. Ebola is not new, although it is new to the u. S. We know how to control ebola. Even in this period, even in largos, nigeria, we have been able to contain the outbreak. We do that by tried and true measures of finding the patients promptly, isolating them effectively, identifying their contacts, ensuring that if any contact becomes ill, they are rapidly identified, isolated, and their contacts are identified. But there are no shortcuts in the control of ebola. And it is not easy to control it. To protect the United States, we have to stop it at the source. There is a lot of fear of ebola. I will tell you, as the director of c. D. C. , one of the things i fear about ebola, is that it could spread more widely in africa. If this were to happen, it could
Providers in the u. S. To consider e. B. D. And the diagnosis of febral illance on the other fevers and persons who had recently traveled to infected countries. The c. D. C. Advisory was also sent to all directors of our Emergency Departments and signage was posted in the e. D. s. On august 1, texas health leaders, including all regional and Hospital Leaders and the e. D. Leaders across our system received an email directing that all hospitals have a hospital emergency policy in place to address how to care for patients with ebolalike symptoms. Systems. The email also drew attention to the fact that our Electronic Health record documentation in Emergency Departments included a question about travel has treat to be completed on every patient. Attachments to the email included a draft emergency policy that specifically d, a poster, and a cdc advisory from 7 28. Of u. S. St 1 guidelines patients suspected to have the disease was the ship is to staff, including the physicians and nurses on
Endeavor. The n. I. H. Is responsible for early concept development, something we did relatively alone, because of the of interest on the Industrial Partners of making interventions. We partnered with someone, who you will hear from shortly, with dr. Robinson, and then we partnered with industry to ultimately, in collaboration with the fda, get the approval products. Next slide. Youve heard a lot about therapeutic interventions. Momentt like to spend a talking to you about a few of them. First, its important to realize experimental. All none of them have proven to be effective. If so when you so when you giving a drug that has a positive effect, we do not know at this point, a, is it a effect, or b, is it causing harm . And thats the reason why we carefully at these the same time we rapidly can make them available to the people who need them. The first one on the list is zmap. To dr. Brantley and nancy. It looks very good in animal model. Still needs to be proven in the human. There is
Violence not to take over the country but to get the white minority regime to listen to the demands of black people. But even early in 64, Martin Luther king was calling for Nelson Mandelas release. In 1965, he spoke in london and called for internal sanctions. He echoed that in the 80s. And, of course, as you know, the Free South Africa Movement in which president obama spoke about being a part of as a young student was very much a part of the ultimate number of things that brought an end to apartheid in south africa. I was here in 85. And as you said, it was a gruesome, gruesome period. And i went to a hilltop so that i could overlook the prison where they said Nelson Mandela had a garden that he used to tend. And i was so hoping, if i couldnt see him, i could see the garden. But, of course, i was followed by state security people and had to leave in a hurry. There you are, pictures of you, as a young woman sitting down with Nelson Mandela. That was at the council on Foreign Relation
He ends up spending most of his time at a base just outside of her size. So it wasnt the hard punishment that perhaps joe thought it might be. She helped him through that and probably is what youre saying. I think she does. I think she does by being the supportive mother that she always was for her children and maybe not able to admit to herself the more Inconvenient Truth about his wife but she does talk free will in her oral history and in her journals about how the boys would misbehave and how they were in courage by the path to come telling the truth. The funny stories. But also telling the truth and then she would say, then my husband would take care of it. She didnt seem to see the conflict between her Victorian Gold of having all the children be responsible, the r. Word was often in her writings and her letters to the. She didnt seem to see the conflict between having joe at the head of the clan to take care of all the misbehaviors. So there were times in glasgow where teddy wou