Georges Benjamin Quotes (16 Quotes)


    This is concerning to all of us the health-care community and should be of equal concern to all Americans. We must find ways to reverse this negative trend.

    Nations are dealing with this on their own because of fears of an impact on trade. We continue to see situations where nations are not as aggressive as they could be off the bat.

    This is mosquito country. There is the risk of explosive breeding of mosquitoes, as well as rats and rodents.


    The most frustrating thing to me is that FedEx can do that sort of detailed tracking of what it ships, but public health officials can't do the same thing with flu vaccine. The knowledge of where exactly vaccine is ought to be a public resource. We have a lot of work to do.


    A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.

    I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go around, but I think the overall public health response was heroic.

    If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seasonal flu, and you could make a big dent in that. Wouldn't that be wonderful

    In an era during which new and re-emerging diseases, such as the H5N1 avian flu virus, are potential public health threats, Americans should not forget to take the proper precautions to protect their health against the diseases that threaten us today.

    People are eating out of (non-working) refrigerators. They think it's good because it's still a little cool.

    You don't have to get 100 percent compliance. As long as you get representative samples of all of the various groups, the bird surveillance serves as an early warning system for us.

    There's a wave here and we should ride it. It's a terrible tragedy that's potentially there, but we should use it as an opportunity to address what we believe are long-standing areas of neglect in rebuilding the public health infrastructure.

    The question is what happens with our existing funding We've already had 100 million in reductions in public-health grants in the president's 2006 budget request. Public health is still in a big hole.

    It's an illusory cost-shift. These people just don't have the money.

    This comparative information is extremely important because it is an indication that we as a nation have not achieved optimal health.

    What often happens in a situation like this is people latch onto very concrete things, like buying vaccine. That's not readiness. That's stockpiling. We have got to have first responders who know what their role is, people who can get shots into people's arms quickly, and hospitals who can handle patients.


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