Additional Quote by Margaret Chan

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop…

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

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

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

— Margaret Chan

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

— Ron Santo

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant…

— Anonymous

Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is…

— Anthony Fauci

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

— Anonymous

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird…

— Chuck Klosterman

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

— Gro Harlem Brundtland

“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

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

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

— Margaret Chan