We also need a vigorous international effort to develop vaccines. Infectious diseases such as TB, Malaria and West Nile know no borders. In addition to the humanitarian need for a global campaign against infectious diseases - we have a strong economic incentive to wage this battle. We need those markets to expand - not shrink. We all know that great Louisville poet - Muhammad Ali.
Prevention is the same way.
It lights our way to good health. That means making sure we don't raise another generation of couch potatoes - or encourage young people to smoke. We all need to eat right. I look at Dot Richardson and I want for every American a sound mind and body. As a kid, when I didn't have my head in a book, I had my hand in a glove or wrapped around a tennis racket.