Capacity Quote by Margaret Chan

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

— Margaret Chan

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

— Anonymous

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

The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of…

— Nathan Wolfe

“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

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

When Covid-19 came to America, a lot of people were concerned about their health and wishing there was a vaccine at that particular moment.…

— Marty Walsh

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

Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe…

— Nathan Wolfe

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a…

— Julie Gerberding

I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe.

— Deborah Birx

This pandemic is a global war. It has affected the entire world. Those countries which had lifted the lockdown in haste thinking that it…

— Uddhav Thackeray