Behaviour Quote by Margaret Chan

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

— Margaret Chan

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

— Anonymous

There is some research that suggests that viruses like the flu are really actually kind of at the razor's edge when it comes to…

— Carl Zimmer

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

— Margaret Chan

The flu is very unpredictable when it begins and in how it takes off.

— Harvey V. Fineberg

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

— Margaret Chan

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars…

— David L. Katz

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

— Leana S. Wen

When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory diseases. This…

— Nathan Wolfe

A century ago the Spanish flu confounded scientists and devastated whole regions, but while today's society has air travel and an enormous, heterogeneous population,…

— Hannah Fry

“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World. Between the…

— Albert Marrin

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at…

— Julie Gerberding