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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 in...

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...

Testified before this committee the same thing, no single Government Agency was responsible for tracking all of these labs. That is correct. That is correct too. Frieden, are you aware of this finding by the g. A. O. Going back all the way to 2007 . Yes, i am. And do you agree with dr. Kingsbury there are an increasing number of labs handling these bioagents . Yes. If we look back over the last 10 years, there is a increasing number. Do you agree with her there has never been one agency in charg...

National captioning institute] signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes in no e...

Make the clock radio wakes you up and you hear the news being reported about the slim losses by republicans in iowa. You wanted to lay there and think to yourself, if i had only done a little bit more. If i had only put aside some of my personal pursuits for that 110 days, and put my state first, put my country first, just for 110 days, if id done that, maybe wed have had a different result. Governor branstad would have had a legislature who would have been moving fully in the direction of his b...

And good morning. You the subcommittee today and him and him and the subcommittee today examines the center for Disease Control anthrax incident last month that potentially exposed dozens of from you potentially exposed dozens of researchers to live and you and anthrax because established cdc policies were not followed. You last friday, the director and you and you announced corrective actions being taken. Are you corrective actions being taken. The review identified a fundamental flaw the agenc...

I have a question also relating to financing. I want to know what you consider the role and impact of the new Bricks Development bank will be Going Forward as it starts in south africa and other countries can then apply to be part of this new development. Thank you. Ill let them talk about the brics bank because, ive heard about it, they set it up a few months ago and what it is, im not sure. Measurability, now we talk a lot about revolution in africa that we dont know. The problem has been a lo...

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 cultur...

Too many blind spots and weak links in places in africa and elsewhere. We have large amounts of travel and animal human interface and large members of people. All three of the cdc components and all of the components are so important. The cdcrelated components are domestic and stopping ebola and preventing the next ebola through the global work. I know its a few weeks ago and they are four individuals from cdc in guinea. France is taking the lead on Ebola Response in this country because the Uni...

They are almost complete and they are very optimistic that they start next phase of the trial with both of those vaccines in west africa. This slide indicated that there was a third company, but they were not expected to engage in phase one trials until the fall of 2015 which is a substantial ways away from where we are today. There other potential vaccine candidates in the pipeline. We are supporting some of those. They are behind this timeline and we are right now focused on trying to figure o...