According to a Pune lab report, a 5-year-old girl in Karnataka has tested positive for the Zika virus and has been advised to take precautionary measures.
the next shot. that s the timing. that s easy. things like avoiding a mammogram soon after you get a boost, that s really related to if you get a shot in the arm, you could have maybe an inflammation of the lymph nodes, and that s something you don t want to complicate the interpretation of a mammogram, but that s the only reason for that. interesting. dr. fauci, good morning, good to have you on with us. you have served seven presidents, beginning with president ronald reagan, republicans and democrats. can you put in context what the last, gosh, almost three years now have been like for you in comparison to the other crises that you have been through, because there has been hiv/aids, of course, zika, bird flu, the list goes on and on. not just in terms of the disease and the numbers and everything we ve seen in it country, more than a million people killed, but in terms of being the face of it, and managing the information that comes out to the public? yes, it s a great questio
forever to as americas doctor is stepping down this month. as a director of the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. at the national institutes of health. as chief medical adviser to president biden. during his decades at nih, fauci advised seven presidents and had to deal with hiv aids, bird flu, the anthrax attacks, ebola, zika and of course covid-19. in 2008, president george w. bush presented him with a presidential medal of freedom. the nation s highest civilian honor for his work on hiv/aids and for the pet farm program providing critical treatment africa. i sat down with a mystery talk about his long career. the triumphs and the challenges. here you are after the storied career. about to step down. from this position as you go on to new adventures. elon musk tweets out his
and it really has been very unique. you re right, i ve had the opportunity to be able to be in the eye of the hurricane of multiple different outbreaks over the years. but they have been really quite different than covid. with hiv, which is a serious pandemic, it s still ongoing, it was a smoldering, gradual over a period of time extended now, we re in our 41st year of it. it was very mysterious in the beginning. it s selectively at first involved individuals of certain groups, particularly men who have sex with men, and we found out that globally, it was really could infect anybody, particularly in the developing world. we have had blips with others. we have had ebola, zika, pandemic flu of 2009. the unique nature of this is that it s three years of really essentially wearing down the country. this was hopefully in the