It is the end of the road for antibiotics unless we act urgently. Tom Frieden More Quotes by Tom Frieden More Quotes From Tom Frieden Too many U.S. adults have a heart age years older than their real age, increasing their risk of heart disease and stroke. Everybody deserves to be young - or at least not old - at heart. Tom Frieden old real age heart I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient. Tom Frieden you society health time If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before. Tom Frieden well stop before just Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary. Tom Frieden health nature science past Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years. Tom Frieden you quality health life Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats. Tom Frieden health nature research world In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states - Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin - already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking. Tom Frieden high-school youth smoking school We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection. Tom Frieden treat risk caring people What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This strategy worked with SARS, and it worked during the H1N1 flu pandemic. Tom Frieden like strategy risk sick A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop. Tom Frieden just prize merit difficult Physical activity - even if you don't lose an ounce, you'll live longer, feel healthier and be less likely to get cancer, heart disease, stroke and arthritis. It's the closest thing we have to a wonder drug. Tom Frieden live feel you heart The way we work in public health is, we make the best recommendations and decisions based on the best available data. Tom Frieden best health work way Flu can be serious, and it kills tens of thousands of Americans each year. Vaccination is easier and more convenient than ever, so get yourself and your family protected. Tom Frieden your yourself family serious Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza. Tom Frieden step single important people Mosquito control in the United States is very much a local and state activity. Some states have excellent programs, other states not so much. It's one of the reasons it's so urgent to identify and spread best practices to try and track and reduce mosquito populations. Tom Frieden control some best try The importance in what we're seeing in countries around the world is a poorly regulated and poorly functioning private sector using irrational and ineffective medications that result in the emergence of drug-resistance tuberculosis. What we've done is begun a program to rapidly improve infection control in places that are treating TB patients. Tom Frieden result control done world The United States has made remarkable progress in reducing both teen pregnancy and racial and ethnic differences, but the reality is, too many American teens are still having babies. Tom Frieden teen progress differences reality To me, as a physician, when 1.78 million of our high school kids have tried an e-cigarette, and a lot of them are using them regularly ... that's like watching someone harm hundreds of thousands of children. Tom Frieden me high-school children school Know that the tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus - sometimes spreads viruses that spread like Zika, so it may be able to spread Zika. Tom Frieden tiger like know sometimes Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most. Tom Frieden every-day day government world
