I've been interested in pandemics for decades. I even made…

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the…

— Norman Swan

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars…

— David L. Katz

In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is…

— Alejandro Castro Espin

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected…

— Laurie Garrett

Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic…

— Martin Filler

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

— Margaret Chan

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

— Colin Powell

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

— Billy Corgan

I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the…

— John Green

I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many…

— Gloria Reuben

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

— Annalee Newitz

As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of…

— Richard Branson

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

— Margaret Chan

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a…

— Nathan Wolfe

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…

— Margaret Chan