CDC Audio/Video Resources

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Transcript: Hepatitis C is a serious infection. It’s a leading cause of liver cancer, but most people with hepatitis C don’t have symptoms and they don’t know they’re infected.

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Transcript: There are about three million Americans with hepatitis C. Most of them are baby boomers, born between the years of 1945 and 1965.

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Transcript: New, more effective treatment for hepatitis C is now available. Treatment can prevent liver cancer and prevent death from liver disease.

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Transcript: Data analyzed at CDC suggests that as few as half of people with a positive hepatitis C test get recommended follow-up testing. The follow-up test is essential. It’s the only way to know if someone’s still infected with the virus. With follow-up testing, people who need it can get lifesaving medical care.

Transcript: This virus is very interesting for us because it's causing such different symptoms in birds and humans. Since this is causing no symptoms in the birds it's flying under the radar screen so to speak. Which means that it might be more wide spread than we realize. That's one of the major concerns for the Americas because it's not here, it's not established in our birds. The Chinese released sequences for the first four human cases very quickly. There's a lot you can learn just from getting the sequence information that can lead you on to other experiments and possibly field studies to try to confirm the suspicions you develop from the sequences. We know a lot about the virus just from the sequence but it's also got some changes we don't really understand yet. Which tells us there's still a lot to learn about this virus. So, we have to actually work with it in the laboratory to figure these things out. This one is showing a lot more human cases early on. H7 compared to H5. Since everybody is experienced with having to change the vaccine composition for seasonal influenza every year, we know that influenza viruses can change. That's something we have to be aware of we have to see that we have a vaccine that works against what's in the population at the time. We're doing as much as we can and our people are working very hard and they know what they're doing. They're producing results at an amazing speed.

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Transcript: Ten years ago a global outbreak of SARs emerged. In six months SARs killed hundreds of people and cost tens of billions of dollars.

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Transcript: A decade after the SARs epidemic we’ve made progress but we remain at risk from global health threats.

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Transcript: We face a perfect storm of vulnerability. Emerging microbes, resistant microbes that outsmart the drugs used to treat them. Globalization of travel and trade and the greater ease of making deadly organisms in a laboratory place us at greater risk than ever before.

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Transcript: CDC is on the lookout 24/7 for threats from new or drug resistant microbes. Every day global travel and trade bring new health risks right to our door. CDC needs new molecular diagnostics to better protect Americans.

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Transcript: To protect Americans, CDC needs next generation diagnostics to find and stop killer microbes before they spread. We need to crack their DNA code. Advanced computing allows us to take disease threats off the table if we act now.

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Transcript: Our lives and our economic stability depend on CDC finding and responding effectively to disease threats.

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Transcript: The "Tips from Former Smokers" campaign shows real people, not actors, dealing with the terrible effects of smoking. As a doctor it's heartbreaking to see patients suffer and die from preventable illness. The "Tips" campaign pulls back the curtain and shows people the tragedies that health professionals see every day.

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Transcript: Big Tobacco continues to spend a million dollars an hour every day of the year to portray smoking as vibrant and healthy. CDC's educational campaign shows the reality. Smokers face illness, disability, disfigurement, and death as a result of their tobacco use.

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Transcript: Illnesses caused by tobacco are one hundred percent preventable.  There's no reason for anyone to be sick, disfigured, or die from tobacco use.

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Transcript: CDC works 24/7 to save lives and protect Americans from health threats. In this month's Vital Signs, we're focusing on a health threat faced by the sickest patients in our country. People who are at risk of infections from antibiotic resistant bacteria called CRE.

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Transcript: CRE kills about half of patients who get severe infections from them. And some CRE infections are untreatable by any antibiotic. We need doctors, nurses, other healthcare workers and people who lead health facilities to work together to take rapid action to stop CRE from spreading further now.

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Transcript: CRE are spreading; more and more patients are at risk of serious infection and death. Although we don't know what the future will bring, we may have a short window of opportunity to take action. If we miss this window of opportunity the deadly bacteria CRE could spread much more widely.

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Transcript: CDC is doing a lot to fight HIV.  We're a driving force in implementation of the goals of the national HIV/AIDS strategy and globally, we and our partners are expanding programs under the president’s emergency plan for AIDS relief, PEPFAR. We're increasing the number of people getting treatment from four to six million by the end of this year.

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Transcript: PEPFAR programs are making a real difference.  They've saved millions of lives and last year alone prevented more than 200 thousand infants from becoming infected with HIV.

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Transcript: Our goal of creating an AIDS-free generation that lives in a world of health and economic security is within reach.  But only if we persevere and keep doing what we know works.

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Transcipt: This year, flu has hit early and it has hit hard. And it’s likely to continue for about another month or so before it really tapers off.

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Transcript: The best way to protect your-self against the flu is with a flu shot. In fact, even though the flu shot is far from perfect, it’s by far the best tool we have to protect against the flu.

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Transcript: While there is still flu vaccine out there, you may have to call around to your provider or pharmacy to make sure that they have it before you get a vaccination.

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Transcript: This week, we at CDC are reporting big reductions in some healthcare-associated infections. This means lives saved and money saved.

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Transcript: Each and every year in the US about a million people get infections while receiving health care. These not only cause preventable illness and death but they cost billions of dollars.

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Transcript: There're still far too many healthcare-associated infections. We have to do more to better protect patients.

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Transcript: Today virtually every single hospital and dialysis center in this county is using CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network. When you know where infections are occurring, you can do more to prevent them.

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Transcript: In 2012 there were fewer cases of polio in fewer countries than ever before in history. We were down to about 222 cases. That was a decline from more than 600 the previous year and from 350,000 when the CDC and our partners started this campaign in 1988.

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Transcript: The finish line for polio eradication is in sight. The last mile is always the hardest. But I’m confident that we will eradicate polio. When we do so, it will be a gift to every child ever born to humanity for evermore.

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Transcript: Eradication is the ultimate in both equity and sustainability, because it’s for everyone and for always.

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Transcript: The progress we’re making against polio is a reflection of a wonderful partnership.  Groups including Rotary International,  The Gates Foundation,  the World Health Organization,  UNICEF, governments around the world,  and, most importantly,  the people on the front line going house to house and making sure that every last child gets vaccinated are going to end this disease once and for all.

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Transcript: We’ve made so much progress on polio because we have a great technical package. We track where the infections are and we make sure that vaccination gets to every last child. That’s what will get us over the finish line.

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Transcript: Although cigarette smoking has declined, it remains the leading preventable cause of death in this country. In this month's Vital Signs, we report that 1 in 3 people with mental illness in this country smoke. And yet people with mental illness, like others in this country, want to quit and can quit.

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Transcript: People with mental illness who smoke, like other people who smoke, want to quit and can quit. Treatments to help stop smoking work, but they're not used enough.

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Transcript: Health care providers and mental health care providers can save lives by helping smokers quit, particularly smokers who have mental illness.

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Transcript: By helping people with mental illness quit smoking, you can improve not only their physical health, but their mental health as well.