Pandemics Quotes

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

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.

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.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

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.

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.

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.

I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

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.

The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.

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.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

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.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.