Green Card Seekers Won't Have To Get HPV Vaccine Nov 17, 2009
"They are not easily transmissible," Dr. Katrin Kohl, deputy director in the CDC's division of global migration and quarantine, said of the two. "They don't fit into the whole public health spirit of outbreak prevention.". (Click2Houston, TX)
Dr. Harvey Lipman, 57, soccer coach and referee since the 1970s Oct 12, 2009
He never stopped one bit, said Dr. Marty Cetron, the CDC s director for global migration and quarantine. He was working on an important project the last week of his life. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
With schools opening, it’s time to prepare for swine flu Aug 31, 2009
What I try to point out to my kids is that by doing this for yourself, by staying home when you re sick and giving up that party or that swim meet, not only are you likely to get better quicker because you re not stressing your immune system, but you re being a better citizen to your friends, said Cetron, director of CDC s Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. I tell them, you don t know whether your teammate s parent is undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. (Boston Globe)
White House Warns of Massive Swine Flu Spread Aug 26, 2009
"It's a plausible scenario that we need to be prepared for," said Marty Cetron, the Center for Disease Control's director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. The report says that under a worst-case scenario, between 60 and 120 million Americans could get sick with the swine flu and another 30 million could contract the virus but not. (ABC News)
HIV travel ban may be lifted for infected visitors Jul 18, 2009
Were trying to end the stigma and the discriminatory practice for a disease that doesnt warrant exclusion for coming into this country, said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the CDCs Division of Global Migration and Quarantine. We have to appreciate this is not a threat we face from abroad. (MSNBC -- Health)
Study charts swine flu spread via air travel Jul 1, 2009
He leads CDC s division of global migration and quarantine. The new swine flu virus was first reported in the United States in mid-April, but the first large outbreak was in Mexico at about the same time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Swine Flu Spreads to Peru as New York City Reports Its First Critical Case May 16, 2009
The CDC may downgrade its warning to avoid non-essential travel to Mexico, , the CDCs director of the global migration and quarantine division, said today in a conference call. The warning may be changed to a precaution, and the agency still would recommend people who are at high risk for complications from the flu talk to their doctor before traveling, he said. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)
Porous border nothing to sneeze at Apr 28, 2009
In fact, the CDC has a "Division of Global Migration and Quarantine ... committed to reducing morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases among immigrants, refugees, international travelers, and other mobile populations that cross international borders.". If only countries such as ours were more committed to controlling those borders. (The Augusta Chronicle)
U.S. declares health emergency over swine flu Apr 28, 2009
The central question, said Dr. Martin Cetron, director of global migration and quarantine for the Centers for Disease Control, is how many mild cases Mexico has had. "We may just be looking at the tip of the iceberg, which would give you a skewed initial estimate of the case fatality rate," he said, meaning that there may have been tens of thousands of mild infections around the 1,600 cases of serious disease and 100 or more deaths. (San Francisco Chronicle)
