Detection Quote by Margaret Chan

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

— Anonymous

Strong health and disease surveillance systems halt epidemics that take lives, disrupt economies, and pose global health security threats.

— Tedros Adhanom

As cities get bigger, our best defence will be to prevent outbreaks in the first place by building better public health systems, improving childhood…

— Seth Berkley

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

— Nathan Wolfe

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

— Leana S. Wen

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even…

— John Linder

By recognizing that infectious disease is not some faraway exotic issue but a global problem, and by sharing the responsibility for its prevention, diagnosis,…

— Seth Berkley

Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just…

— Seth Berkley

In 2009, when I was Health Minister, we re-engineered our business processes to examine the weaknesses and opportunities in our health system. Following that…

— Tedros Adhanom

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

— Anonymous

If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with…

— Kamala Harris

“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible…

— Yuval Noah Harari