Pandemics quotes
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A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.
-- Colin Powell -
That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.
-- Gro Harlem Brundtland -
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
-- Irwin Redlener -
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Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.
-- Laurie Garrett -
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
-- Margaret Chan -
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
-- Margaret Chan -
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
-- Margaret Chan -
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For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
-- Margaret Chan -
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
-- Margaret Chan -
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
-- Martin Filler -
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
-- Nathan Wolfe -
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
-- Nathan Wolfe -
Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.
-- David Kirschner -
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
-- Julie Gerberding
