"Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue;……" — Margaret Chan

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• What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker… — David Nabarro
• The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any… — Evelyn Waugh
• For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are… — Margaret Chan
• Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. — Margaret Chan
• My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918. — James Rainwater
• All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of… — Margaret Chan
• My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the… — Patti Smith
• Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a… — Jared Diamond
• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation. — Margaret Chan
• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater… — David L. Katz
• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is… — Nathan Wolfe

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