Influenza Quote by Margaret Chan

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

For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid…

— Margaret Chan

When you get sick with the flu you get infected with flu viruses and they make lots of new flu viruses, but those new…

— Carl Zimmer

“The researchers looked deeper into these observations, in hopes of gaining insight into the mechanisms underlying the high evolutionary rate and extraordinary immunologic plasticity…

— Michael G Cordingley

The reason that viruses are so hard to fight, the reason for example we need a flu virus every year is that they evolve…

— Carl Zimmer

“The results of the studies opened up a whole new avenue of research into live-attenuated vaccines: synthetic attenuated virus engineering (SAVE). A virus was…

— Michael G Cordingley

We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.

— David Nabarro

What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza…

— David Nabarro

The swine flu is evolution, isn't it? In a way, it's an evolution of flu.

— Alan Tudyk

In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to…

— Michael Greger

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

— Harvey V. Fineberg

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to…

— Anthony Fauci