dr anthony fauci thank you real pleasure so much for being here. although dangerous superbugs are a clear and present threat to public health the federal government actually has to bribe drug companies to fight them the new york times reported this weekend that the health and human services department last month announced an agreement under which it will pay forty million dollars to major drug maker glaxo smith kline to help develop medications to combat added biologic resistance and biological agents that terrorists might use under the plan the federal government could give the drug company as much as two hundred million dollars over the next five years in other words the are indeed apartments the big pharmaceutical companies are too busy tweaking their most recent versions of prozac and by agra to keep them in patent to worry about researching cures for diseases that could kill thousands capitalism works great if you're trying to make money when your goal is to protect the commons to save lives it's not enough that's why we created our government

to the entire world what should you know about a disease some are calling the new sars last dr anthony fauci of the national institutes of health in just a moment also for people who supposedly hate the government tea partiers love their subsidies certain justification for their use of taxpayer money or are they just. talk about that and more into nice long liberal rumble and with the passing of frank lautenberg america has lost more than a man.

to the entire world what should you know about a disease some are calling the new sars last dr anthony fauci of the national institutes of health in just a moment also for people who supposedly hate the government years there are subsidies certain justification for their use of taxpayer money or are they just. talk about that and more liberal rumble and with the passing of frank lautenberg america has lost more than a man it's lost a worldview.

dr. anthony fauci. doctors don't know, correct me if i'm wrong, dr.re getting this disease. i assume it makes it harder to fight? >> that is absolutely correct, wolf. we don't know how people are getting it. you can assume if it is directly from a bat that it is exposure to a bat. but if there's a secondary host or secondary animal like a mammal, you don't understand because there's no direct epidemiological link, common link of transmisability, first a case pops up in the middle east and some cases traveled from the middle east to other countries like the uk, like tunesia and france and other places where they had people in the european and other countries who got infected in the middle east and then came back and there have been some what we call family clusters, people very closely related to the individuals, either in a family or in a health care setting, but again, to emphasize, sustained person to person transmission has not occurred, thank goodness. >> let's hope it doesn't. the united nations world health organization as you know says this is,