Air travel Quote by Hannah Fry

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the…

— Bill Gates

“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt and destroy.…

— Bill Nye

As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect…

— Seth Berkley

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

— Margaret Chan

“scientists now argue that the primordial source of all flu strains is migrating aquatic birds such as ducks and geese that have roamed the…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of…

— Seth Berkley

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid…

— Margaret Chan

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman…

— Paddy Ashdown

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

— Anonymous

If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Ebola is a zoonosis. So is bubonic plague. So was the so-called Spanish influenza of 1918–1919, which had its ultimate source in a wild…

— David Quammen

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting…

— Kristi Yamaguchi