Both Quote by Robert Nelson

Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 36,000 people in…

— Seth Berkley

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead…

— Tia Mowry

“In the United States, influenza death rates were so high that the average life span fell by twelve years, from fifty-one in 1917 to…

— Albert Marrin

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

— Margaret Chan

Vaccination is a public health issue because influenza is a highly contagious disease. If you don't vaccinate your child, his or her schoolmates are…

— Michael Specter

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

— Anonymous

“It had long been assumed that school-age children represented ideal vectors of infection, because they are among the preferred victims of seasonal flu, they…

— Laura Spinney

People don't always recognize how serious it can be, that there can be some serious complications from the flu and even death. People believe…

— Sarah Chalke

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

From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is…

— Irwin Redlener

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at…

— Julie Gerberding

Why do our kids need to be protected from flu? Isn't that something only for the cold western countries who have long, cold, below-zero…

— Raveena Tandon