some of the late complications are only now becoming apparent mersa need supplementary oxygen just to be able to breeze there is a fund in germany connected to the court against gift which allows the later might is to apply to it for financial assistance there's also a fund that's been set up by agreement to apply to that but you can apply to them saying you wanted some more money but you have to prove first of all you've applied to a little more trust to get some money and they have said no and that you've applied to all the charities only applied to local governments get assistance when you've been rejected by everybody you can then green atar they would like to quote some money towards your. financial assistance but you're not really aware that because green it hasn't made it public to thalidomide is outside of germany in fact the company established a private foundation. however coonan told does not want to talk about it nor do they want to discuss how application decisions are made they say they don't want to provoke envy. we believe general government should be responsible for p

from measles to mumps to polio to mersa, legionnaires disease. you think she's busy? she has provided terrific leadership lab b for health and surveillance initiative. she's a champion for prevention and control. it's a pleasure to have you. thank you. >> good morning, everybody. this morning, i had the opportunity to tour the exhibit at the smithsonian and it rea y reallies on the public health threats of today, thing that is the public is worried about now. but i think it's important to remember ma wha the public was worried about 100 years ago and this slide illustrates these diseases which were common 100 years ago and aren't now because of the success of imnation. it is one of f the public health success stories of our century and this just shows some of those diseases and the mortality before vags nation and after. even for diseases for which we have perhaps less than perfect control, we're still preventing 90% of the cases that occurred a century ago. that's a remarkable achief chiefment. here's another way to k loob at it. back in 1964, we could only vaccinate