I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent…

It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the…

— Tom Frieden

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.

— Tom Frieden

Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and…

— Richard E. Besser

This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very…

— Vincent Martin

...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months

— Margaret Chan

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

— David Nabarro

People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food.

— Keiji Fukuda

When someone has a very urgent response, I think it just means that it's triggering something in them that they may not necessarily want…

— Alanis Morissette

The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it…

— Tom Frieden

It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind…

— Tom Frieden

Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola

— Tom Frieden

Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be…

— David Quammen

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the…

— Anonymous

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

— Richard Preston

I am very convinced that I did not contract Ebola in the isolation unit, because our process is so safe.

— Kent Brantly