“President Barack Obama learns about the results of the experimental Ebola vaccine which just completed Phase 1 clinical trials from Dr. Nancy Sullivan, Chief of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Vaccine Research Center’s Biodefense Research Section. Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell and NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci accompanied the tour.” (Unknown photographer, NIH)
DECEMBER 2, 2014 | CLIP OF PRESIDENT OBAMA ON EBOLA RESPONSE
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There may and likely will come a time in which we have both an airborne disease that is deadly. And in order for us to deal with that effectively, we have to put in place an infrastructure — not just here at home, but globally — that allows us to see it quickly, isolate it quickly, respond to it quickly. And it also requires us to continue the same path of basic research that is being done here at NIH that Nancy [Dr. Nancy Sullivan] is a great example of. So that if and when a new strain of flu, like the Spanish flu, crops up five years from now or a decade from now, we’ve made the investment and we’re further along to be able to catch it. It is a smart investment for us to make. It’s not just insurance; it is knowing that down the road we’re going to continue to have problems like this — particularly in a globalized world where you move from one side of the world to the other in a day.
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