Airborne Quote by Margaret Chan

The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the…

— Bill Gates

There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the…

— Anthony Fauci

Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.

— Alpha Conde

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

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to…

— Tom Clancy

We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from…

— Rebecca Solnit

I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United…

— John McCain

Is Guinea prepared? And that's the question because of course these three countries had very, very weak health institutions. Many people had said that…

— Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe,

— Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

— Paul Allen

As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an…

— Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Preparedness, when properly pursued, is a way of life, not a sudden, spectacular program. We could refer to all the components of personal and…

— Spencer W. Kimball