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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 incidents that summarized in our report which has been completed and were just at the outset of our in...

Oversees the selected agent work. They both need to be there. Let me just say that weve seen this in this subcommittee not just at cdc. We have also seen it in the labs. And we saw it atl where data disappeared because a researcher took it home to his house. Its the same kind of or whatever. Its an assumption that theres Important Research going on and that nothing bad is going to happen. Correct. So what i think is that in fairness, i think what dr. Freeden thinks, too, is you need to put systems in place so that its not relying on somebody to have that kind of judgment where really you shoul...

Solve, but we think it would be worth spending some time even at a theoretical strategic level to address the issue and think through how we go about doing it in the future. Dr. Frieden, what are your views here in terms of the growing numbers of of the labs and just what how to move forward with the activity here in the u. S. . I do think this is a complicated topic for which theres probably not a quick and simple solution, but just logically, the more places with dangerous pathogens goes on, the more possibility there is of accidents or accidental releases. So ensuring that the work that hap...

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 charge despite the red flags going up all of these years . There is a Clear Division of responsibilities ...

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