change we can believe in: preventing pandemics - because emerging infectious diseases are...
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“Change We Can Believe In: Preventing Pandemics - Because Emerging Infectious Diseases Are Non-Partisan” (delivered as remarks, without a projector), Renaissance Weekend, Monterey, California, 4 September 2009.TRANSCRIPT
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Change We Can Believe In: Preventing Pandemics - Because Emerging Infectious Diseases Are Non-Partisan
Assistant ProfessorNational Security AffairsNaval Postgraduate [email protected]://faculty.nps.edu/sear4 September 2009Delivered at Renaissance Weekend Monterey Plaza Hotel
Sophal Ear, PhD
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2009 showed that we have a serious problem with figuring out what is happening with emerging infectious diseases like Swine Flu in a country as near to us as Mexico
We need to do better with surveillance of Emerging Infectious Diseases
Developing countries abilities to detect outbreaks will impact our national security; we must do better.
Whether Health Care is fixed or not
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Swine Flu in 2009
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Swine Flu could have
Turned out very differently
1976, nearly 50 million Americans got vaccinated
4,000 got sick from the vaccinations
Remember what Winston Churchill said "Keep science on tap not on top"
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Change We Can Believe In: Preventing Pandemics - Because Emerging Infectious Diseases Are Non-PartisanWhether Health Care is fixed or notSwine Flu in 2009Swine Flu could have