FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, August 17, 2005
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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, August 17, 2005
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 121 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Briefed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the State Dept. on the
threat of Pandemic influenza. Also present were Sec/ Mike Leavitt, Rich McKeown, Bill
Steiger, Julie Gerberding, Bruce Gellin, Bill Raub, Dan Singer, and a few Assist. Secs in
DoS. We gave Dr. Rice a primer on Pandemic flu and also discussed the international
implications, particularly related to the recent findings that migratory birds have brought
H5N1 to chicken flocks in Siberia, Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan and flyways will
likely bring it to India and Europe. She was very gracious and was glad to see me again
since I had briefed her a few times on HIV/AIDS and biodefense when she was at NSC

August 19-28, 2005 – Very productive meeting of editorial board of Harrison’s
Principles of internal Medicine (HPIM) – 17 and McGraw-Hill publishers at Spring
Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, WY to plan the 17th Edition that will be published in 2008.
We returned there after our 1991 planning meeting for a prior edition. I am the editor-in-
chief for the 17th and I picked Jackson Hole. Great choice. Beautiful weather and above
all, Bob and Colleen Grady have a beautiful home there and our girls stayed with them
while Chris and I stayed at the Spring Creek Ranch. Did fishing (caught several cutthroat
trout), hiking and just relaxing, although I worked every day (1 ½ day off) on the book.
Very frightening experience when Bob, Colleen, Chris and the girls took a (supposedly 6
hour) 12 mile hike on the Teton Crest trail. A bit reckless on Colleen’s part in that we
started late (1:45 PM) and would have cut it close to get to destination by nightfall. Trail
we difficult, but incredibly beautiful. Unfortunately, we got lost (wrong turn) and lost >2
hours. We hiked the last hour+ in the dark. Alison was totally frightened. We saw up
close several bull moose, mountain lion tracks and wolf tracks. Danger was being
stranded in the woods overnight with temperatures going down to <40 F every night. We
finally made it to the fire road and out by 9:25 PM.