We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that in that smoke would irritate the skin or even irritate the lungs. So, for the most time, it could be either just a little bit of a nuisance irritant, or if you get a really big whiff of it, particularly people who have, for example, reversible airways disease, like asthma or different types of hypersensitivity diseases, you could get a serious problem.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.