Is, and why hospitals arent doing enough to stop it and vicious threats on sea. He showed his gun. They drown, sometimes they slash the boats. Pirates and others trying to flee to safety, and why few in europe are willing to help thank for joining us, im joie chen. Its the image that lunched a burst of compassion and frustration over the long simmering refugee crisis overtaking europe. The picture of a young boy washed ashore, a signal of so many desperate travellers fleeing conflict at home, against odds as they struggle to reach safety. Escapes have been under way for years. This is the deadliest summer yet by the u. N. s count. As Sheila Macvicar tells us, its not just the challenge of beating nature, but surviving human threats as well. Landing on the rocky shores of the greek island. Coming from the beaches of turkey. Countries so close from one you can see the other. So close, theres no sense of dangers lurking at seas. We get it every day on the north coast. Every person on boat
And vicious threats on the sea. He showed his gun. They drown, sometimes they slash the boats. Pirates and others trying to flee to safety, and why few in europe are willing to help thank for joining us, im joie chen. Its the image that lunched a burst of compassion and frustration over the long simmering refugee crisis overtaking europe. The picture of a young boy washed ashore, a signal of so many desperate travellers fleeing conflict at home, against odds as they struggle to reach safety. Escapes have been under way for years. This is the deadliest summer yet by the u. N. s count. As Sheila Macvicar tells us, its not just the challenge of beating nature, but surviving human threats as well. Landing on the rocky shores of the greek island. Coming from the beaches of turkey. Countries so close from one you can see the other. So close, theres no sense of dangers lurking at seas. We get it every day on the north coast. Every person on boats. We say 5055. We had boats with 76 people on b
Thought about todays hearing as it relates to cdc, it is this. With the recent incidents, we recognize the pattern at cdc where we need to greatly improve the culture of safety and i am overseeing sweeping measures to improve that culture of safety. Cdc works 24 7 and our scientists protect americans from threats, including naturally occurring threats like ebola and mers and drug resistant bacteria such as anthrax. But we must do that work more safely and we will. Theres a recap of the recent incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our investigation of the influenza contamination. Id be pleased to go through the two diagrams weve provided to the subcommittee which outlined what we know to date. But in brief, the anthrax incident shows deeply troubling problems. A lack of proper protocol, incorrect inactivation procedures. Failure to ensure that we were transferring materials that were sterile when we thought they were sterile. Use
Political participation as two of his principles while at the same time the president has kept afghanistans first lady hidden from the eyes of the world for the most part. Do you think he fears that its going to ignite the same protests and reactions from the tribal leaders in the conservative sections of the society . I will answer in the following way. The best solution would have been if the afghans could have solved this themselves. Clear in his immigration speech in 2009, karzai said i want to organize the process. That was after the interference trying to unseat him at the time. Now that didnt work. That didnt work and, therefore, i believe that the visit by john kerry. I admire and respect the fact that he went there, sat down and came to what for me is im going to say the only obvious solution when it comes to the counting. If you disagree on how much to count, count it all, huh . But kerrys handson diplomacy in this respect is admirable. I think its admirable. In 2009 when he
That lets people know when thers been a problem there . There are multiple alarm systems within cdc. In this case, it was a crosscontamination of a culture. So somehow, and we havent figured out how yet, a relatively low virulence Avian Influenza was crosscontaminated with the highly pathogenic h5n1. Is there any evidence of cover up here from employees not wanting to let someone else know that no. Weve seen at this point no evidence of a cover up, but we do see the need to strengthen the culture of safety that encourages reporting. Anytime theres a problem or potential problem so we can assess it and take rapid and prompt action. Thank you. I now recognize ms. Degette for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Dr. Kingsbury, let me just make sure i heard your testimony right. You testified that theres an increasing number of labs that are handling these bioagents, correct . Correct. And you said theres really no one agency in charge. Is that correct . Correct. Now, in you said that to