I am personally overseeing changes that include the establishment of a global health emergency workforce.

...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit.

This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency.

A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship.