To make sure our Fire Department is ready for all those disasters and, of course their appear on the on the ground at the first instance our director of Human Resources agency and many of our City Departments are here to join me supervisor wiener and other members of the board of supervisors are here who have been working hard with me on forecasting what we do and can do better as a city when it comes to disasters and all of them working together with me now even more members of our innocence social Services Agencies in the community were practicing all the time how to do better to help our residents effected by those disasters well, im looking at a very, very good group of what weve termed Good Samaritans in our city and this means a lot to me the people standing in front of you are today people that i believe have hearts of gold and that im proud of their bold actions for our resident and neighbors and entire community that needed them as a special time im sure youre aware of our cit
That concludes business for us today colleagues thank you very muchment we are adjourned. A first of all, let me begin by saying what a wonderful city im so luke for the mayor of a great city like San Francisco you know offer the years when i was city administrator i was working with then dominating to make sure that a city we also be prepared and read for the biggest disasters and i often used the term i continue uss it is another Internal Revenue magnify this great city if were ready then the words like recovery and reliantcy will be common words we use everyday where our departments or nonprofit organizations working the community or volunteers that by the constantly try to recruit and today, i want to say to you that we dont have to be waiting for big disasters on a citywide basis to happen before you we oozed use those word were challenged by disasters just as big for small families as and face certainly things certainly for the last two months well have 4 major fires in the city
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Central africa and this includes the outbreaks that have been reported worldwide and have been garnered. It is actually relatively recently that this has emerged in west. And in fact this actually started around the area and this includes where siberia and liberia intersect. In an embossed the case of a 2yearold boy and this includes moving into sierra leone and liberia. And so nice chain of events, if you will, with transmission moving from very remote areas into urban areas. And that is one of the most notable features of this particular outbreak. And they are found to be over 8000 suspect cases and half are little but more than confirmed. The country that has been most affected by this has been liberia and also significant cases in sierra leone and guinea as you all know. What is most important is that most of these cases have occurred in last three to four weeks and the burden of this particular outbreak is increasing. So in the democratic republic of congo, the outbreak is actuall
Good morning. Im honored to be participating in this prestigious symposium. I will say at the outset that is the director the Research Facility we are in the business of developing countermeasures for those organisms which require high levels of biocontainment and what keeps me up at night is what happens if one of my lab workers catches this experiment. We do have medical Treatment Facilities and special containment studies unit in bethesda. We will handle cases of occupational exposure from the four teacher campus. Cdc has memory and two years ago i convened a symposium with two colleagues rick davey and lisa hensley bringing the medical directors of those various facilities together to review medical countermeasures that could be possibly prepositioned in those facilities so they would be available on short notice. It was somewhat disturbing at that time that there were no countermeasures. The best we could do was to review the literature and see where things were in the pipeline an