Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. — Lois Capps Copy Share Image
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. — Billy Corgan Copy Share Image
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ...… — Laurie Garrett Copy Share Image
“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside,… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to:… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S.… — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything… — Alejandro Castro Espin Copy Share Image
There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World.… — Albert Marrin Copy Share Image
In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary. — Liza Soberano Copy Share Image
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe. — Deborah Birx Copy Share Image
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year. — Gillian Anderson Copy Share Image
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
I've been interested in pandemics for decades. I even made a four-part series for Channel 4 UK and SBS called 'Invisible Enemies'… — Norman Swan Copy Share Image
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need… — Margaret Chan Copy Share Image
