We are seeing that we are beginning to tighten in on the disease. ... Eventually, we hope that it can be contained throughout the world and not become an epidemic or an endemic disease.

The disease has been devastating for so many. Raising false hope would add insult to injury.

I want to remember that there is always hope, always a new beginning, no matter what has been lost.

This means a new beginning for the Gulf Coast. This is the hope that we've needed since Aug. 29.

What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential. For the present, everything hinges on what we find out in China, as far as our projections [are concerned].

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.