there is a virus that emerged that closely resembles the sars virus, to want in the same family, coronavirus, the sars virus that really scared the disease experts back in 2003. this new sarge like a virus out of the arabian peninsula has only killed one person here it's but another man in the hospital in britain, but scientists all over the world are watching it carefully. why? because they know that the next big one could look something like that. so as i said there's a drumbeat of these things. those diseases that i've mentioned all have two things in common. they all come out of wildlife. they emerge from nonhuman animals, and among those that i mentioned they are all caused by viruses. that's a particular profile of the scariest of the exemplars of this phenomenon. the scientists have a fancy name for it. as barbara mentioned, they call these animal infections that us into humans zoonoses. a virus or could be other forms of infectious bug. it can be a bacteria or it could be a protozoan, like the creatures that cause malaria. it could be fungus. it could be a worm. a to be something cal

belongs to the same family, the coronavirus, the sars virus that really scared experts.this new stars like virus out of the arabian peninsula has only killed one person and put another man in the hospital in britain but scientists all over the world are watching it carefully. why are they watching it carefully? because they know the next big one could look something like that. so as i say there is a drumbeat of these things. those diseases that i mentioned all have two things in common. they all come out of wildlife. they emerge from nonhuman animals and among those that i mentioned they are all caused by viruses and that is a particular profile of the scariest of the exemplars of this phenomenon. the scientists have a fancy name for it. as barbara mentioned they call these animal infections that pass into humans zoonoses, a virus or can be other forms of an infectious bug. it can be a bacterium. it can be to produce on like the creatures that cause malaria. it could be a fungus. it could be a worm. could be something called a prion which causes mad cow disease. usually

of public health with research including influenza also in emerging viruses has also looked at the coronavirusost recently ebola. sharing discoveries could be as important with the efforts to communicate effectively about infectious disease with the media and broader public. in addition to the instrumental and viable role to argue this symposium is part of the program thanks for your extraordinary efforts to bring this together. thanks for being here today. [applause] >> good morning. thanks to the speakers to so kindly agreed to come on short notice and the audience and everyone streaming online. putting together a very broad and wide ranging symposium that people can appreciate. we split this into two general sessions they could be five presentations on the response of unpreparedness and for dealing with the epidemic. then we will give the keynote address the have a panel that at that point we hope to wring gauge the audience with the range of questions they have regarding challenges for the intervention strategy for the ebola outbreak to focus more on what is going with concerns about ebola

the hospital. i'm not -- when we did this back in 2004, we had a coronavirus called sars. one of the things we used was a lot of videos. know that -- my students give them ae, i can document and they can read the document and then i test them. i can get them to watch a video, and they do better in the test after they watch the video. videos on can make best practices and guidances and myths and rumors. all over theources place. whether it's the ebola highly infectious disease classroom or youtube. when we talk about a medical records here in this country, we know we have to prevent -- we cognizant of the privacy of the patient. we also know that the medical favor. can work in our i carry a cell phone. i do so much of my work on a cell phone. i have a hipaa compliant telemedicine platform on this i can talk tot hospitals in privacy. encrypted. no one can hack into this. i can have confidential phone,ations on my cell 24 hours, seven days a week, and we can talk about patient care. within ourt electronic medical records, we need to improve our between nurses and physicians. b