Influenza Quotes
22 quotes by 16 authors
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What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as…
— David Nabarro
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The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.
— Evelyn Waugh
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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…
— Margaret Chan
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Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
— Margaret Chan
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My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
— James Rainwater
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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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My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process…
— Patti Smith
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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas…
— Jared Diamond
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War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
— Margaret Chan
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The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.
— Margaret Chan
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The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of…
— David L. Katz
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a…
— Nathan Wolfe
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This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're…
— Orson Scott Card
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The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one…
— Stella Gibbons
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Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread…
— Louise Fresco
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially…
— Nathan Wolfe
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A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
— Anthony Fauci
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It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.
— Richard Reeves
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Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who…
— Robert Nelson
Who Wrote These Influenza Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 22 Influenza Quotes as follows: