Dr. David W. Fleming

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  Dr. David FlemingDirector, Global Health Strategies ProgramBill & Melinda Gates Foundation

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  "The success of the clinical side is phenomenal," said David Fleming, executive director of Donate Life America, a nonprofit alliance of national and local organizations dedicated to promoting organ donation.
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  That's generally because a person without a kidney can be kept alive longer, Fleming said.Dialysis can sustain them, while patients in need of such vital organs as hearts or lungs often die quickly.
  
  However, the nation's diabetes epidemic is expected to make kidney failure much more prevalent in the future, leading to even greater demand for donated kidneys, Fleming added.
  
  The waiting list for livers is next longest, with more than 16,000 patients awaiting help.More than 2,600 people are waiting for a heart, while an estimated 2,100 people need a lung, and around 1,600 patients are waiting for a pancreas.
  
  The main problem with supply is that donors must die in a very specific way for their organs to be useful to others.
  
  "In order to donate a solid organ, you have to die a brain death," Fleming said."It's a very small percentage of the population that die in a way that leaves them brain dead," he said, about 1 percent of deaths annually, between 20,000 to 30,000 people.
  
  Of those who die under optimal conditions, only about 60 percent have consented to donate their organs, he said.
  
  "Realistically, if 100 percent of the people consented to donate their organs, we still wouldn't be able to save everybody," Fleming said.
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  "We have lots of national heath-care crises in this country that we don't have a solution for," Fleming said.
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  SOURCES: David Sachs, M.D., director of the Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; David Fleming, executive director of Donate Life America, Richmond, Va.; U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration

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  The U.S. government also banned the importation or trade of African rodents, including Gambian rats believed to be the original source of the smallpox-like illness previously unseen in the Western Hemisphere, said David Fleming, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. "I'm confident that everything that can be done is being done to prevent the spread of this virus," Fleming told reporters, citing efforts to track down and euthanize infected animals.
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  The smallpox vaccine has been found to be roughly 85 percent effective in warding off monkeypox in humans, which kills between 1 percent and 10 percent of its victims in the rain forests of central and western Africa, Fleming said. The CDC recommended that local public health authorities vaccinate health investigators, veterinary staff, relatives of monkeypox victims, and others who believed they were exposed to the virus as long as two weeks ago. "We need to be prepared for the fact that monkeypox can be a fatal disease," Fleming said.
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  "We're optimistic we can deliver the vaccine to these people in time to do good," said Dr. David Fleming, deputy director for Public Health and Science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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  Fleming said he is confident the disease will be controlled.
  
  "Monkeypox is a disease that is potentially transmissible from person to person but at a fairly low level," he said."I don't anticipate the same kind of problem that we anticipate from SARS."
  
  The Department of Agriculture will be in charge of enforcing the prairie dog ban, which also prohibits transporting the animals.Gambian rats and five other types of large African rodents were banned because a Gambian rat is believed to have spread the virus to prairie dogs, which are actually rodents and are native to the American Plains.
  
  Fleming said the smallpox vaccine is 85% effective against monkeypox.
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  CDC officials didn't know how many people would have to be vaccinated, but Fleming said he expected the number to be modest.
  
  About 40 out of every million people vaccinated for the first time will face a life-threatening injury, and one or two will die.
  
  Still, the CDC is recommending even pregnant women, children and people with eczema - for whom the vaccine is not recommended - who have been exposed to infected prairie dogs get the vaccine.
  
  "Because of the real risk here ... we're recommending a somewhat aggressive approach of who should get the vaccine," Fleming said.

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  Contact: David Fleming 804-782-4920 dfleming@donatelife.net

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  CONTACT: David Fleming 804-782-4920 dfleming@donatelife.net

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  "Nancy and Katherine Heigl have clearly made a significant contribution on a national level to increase organ, eye and tissue donation and they have demonstrated the power of their personal commitment to the cause through their multi-media outreach efforts," stated David Fleming, Executive Director of the Coalition on Donation.

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  CDC Deputy Director David Fleming to Join Gates FoundationSEATTLE -- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today that David Fleming, M.D., has been named director of the foundation's Global Health Strategies program.

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  CONTACT: David Fleming 804-782-4920 dfleming@donatelife.net

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  Special guests include American Red Cross Health & Safety Director Dotty Klyce, King County Executive Ron Sims and Dr. David Fleming, Director and Health Officer for Public Health-Seattle & King County.

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  "The success of the clinical side is phenomenal," said David Fleming, executive director of Donate Life America, a nonprofit alliance of national and local organizations dedicated to promoting organ donation.
  ...
  That's generally because a person without a kidney can be kept alive longer, Fleming said.Dialysis can sustain them, while patients in need of such vital organs as hearts or lungs often die quickly.
  
  However, the nation's diabetes epidemic is expected to make kidney failure much more prevalent in the future, leading to even greater demand for donated kidneys, Fleming added.
  
  The waiting list for livers is next longest, with more than 16,000 patients awaiting help.More than 2,600 people are waiting for a heart, while an estimated 2,100 people need a lung, and around 1,600 patients are waiting for a pancreas.
  
  The main problem with supply is that donors must die in a very specific way for their organs to be useful to others.
  
  "In order to donate a solid organ, you have to die a brain death," Fleming said."It's a very small percentage of the population that die in a way that leaves them brain dead," he said, about 1 percent of deaths annually, between 20,000 to 30,000 people.
  
  Of those who die under optimal conditions, only about 60 percent have consented to donate their organs, he said.
  
  "Realistically, if 100 percent of the people consented to donate their organs, we still wouldn't be able to save everybody," Fleming said.
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  "We have lots of national heath-care crises in this country that we don't have a solution for," Fleming said.

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