Behaviour Quote by Margaret Chan

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

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

— Margaret Chan

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

— 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

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals,…

— Nathan Wolfe

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

Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected…

— Laurie Garrett

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert…

— Margaret Chan

For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry,…

— Margaret Chan

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

— Margaret Chan

The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of…

— Stella Gibbons