29 Quotes by Dr. Gerberding

This is not media hype. This is a real issue for us.

A lot of clinicians have never seen a case of mumps.

The best protection against the mumps is the vaccine.

If you are a bird, this is a pandemic.

Cigarette smoking continues to impose substantial health and financial costs on individuals and society. If we want to significantly reduce the toll in this decade, we must provide the 32 million smokers who say they want to quit with the tools and support to do so successfully.

But it really takes a lot of time and a lot of money. There are a lot of black boxes out there where something could emerge and we won't be able to find it.

Hope is not a strategy. We have to plan.

The child-bearing years are an exciting time in a woman's life and there are a number of steps they can take to be healthy, benefiting both them and their future child.

The financial and economic impact of injuries in the United States is serious. However, by expanding our science-based, injury-prevention programs, we can drastically reduce these costs and even more importantly help people live longer and healthier lives.