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A pandemic is not imminent. A pandemic is expected at some point, but recognize it could be a comple...
DR. NED CALONGE Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caus...
MICHAEL OSTERHOLM We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain, and we know it will occur, but we don't know...
DICK THOMPSON In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europ...
ALBERT OSTERHAUS There are a lot of scary stories out there about the next pandemic, but we have to make difficult de...
DICK THOMPSON Strong surveillance and response networks for early detection of pandemic virus will make a differen...
KLAUS STOHR If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following...
JIM ROBERTSON If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following...
DR JIM ROBERTSON This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until ...
ZSUZSANNA JAKAB By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable...
DR. SHIGERU OMI The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal ...
DR. CARISSA ETIENNE If we can reduce the presence of the virus, we will reduce the probability of a human pandemic.
BERNARD VALLAT Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certaint...
MICHAEL RYAN To become a pandemic the virus has to go through a number of mutation barriers and from what we have...
FREDERICK LEUNG Flu is a virus that most people have no immunity or build-up to. It could spread worldwide and becom...
EMILY PALMER Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus....
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI The priority to prevent the pandemic still stands on Asia, but besides that, if the virus is coming ...
JOSEPH DOMENECH We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain and we know it will occur, but we don't know ...
DICK THOMPSON![]()
We are not in a pandemic situation. It is still an animal disease.
MARGARET CHAN I think everyone would agree a pandemic is not imminent.
DR. NED CALONGE This is not the start of the pandemic. The start of the pandemic starts when there is human to human...
DR. DAVID NABARRO We are in possession of one of the key ingredients of a potential solution to the pandemic threat.
HOWARD PIEN We're not going to know how lethal the next pandemic is going to be until the pandemic begins. You c...
DICK THOMPSON The difference between a pandemic flu plan and other disease plans is that in a pandemic, we assume ...
LEAH BINDER The idea is simple. The fear is that the bird virus will re-assort with a human virus and generate a...
DANIEL PEREZ I think it is totally unreasonable on the basis of every pandemic we've had. Every earlier pandemic ...
EDWIN KILBOURNE An influenza pandemic has a very significant potential to cause rapid increases in death and illness...
ANTHONY GRIFFIN It's not a question of if but when. It may be not this strand of virus but another one down the road...
PAUL SWIERGOSZ [The finding that Spanish flu came straight from birds has raised concerns among scientists. Previou...
RONALD ATLAS It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and th...
ANTHONY FAUCI The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, a...
ALEX AZAR An intranasal pandemic vaccine may help facilitate and expedite influenza vaccinations for more Amer...
JAMES YOUNG The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
STEPHEN LEWIS Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront.
DAN SLAVIN There is general agreement that there will be another human influenza pandemic. The question is not ...
JAMES TRACY The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.
DICK THOMPSON It's been over 30 years since we've had a pandemic, so inevitably we are going to have a pandemic wi...
ANTHONY FAUCI We currently have no evidence that a pandemic flu in this country is imminent. That said, we are fai...
FRAN TOWNSEND Commissioner Sam Brentano has been particularity interested in county preparations for pandemic flu.
SHAWN BAIRD And that would be the pandemic.
APHALUCK BHATIASEVI There is a window of opportunity right now to reduce the risk. What we know is that we need to act r...
LOUISE FRESCO There is a window of opportunity right now to reduce the risk, ... What we know is that we need to a...
LOUISE FRESCO![]()
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
MARGARET CHAN It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it ...
WILLIAM ALDIS As long as H5N1 remains a bird virus, the threat to human health is not grave. But influenza viruses...
DR. CARISSA ETIENNE We don't have enough if a pandemic happened tomorrow.
EDWIN KILBOURNE It's a global pandemic. It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue i...
DUANE GUBLER We have no protection against it and that is the beginning of a pandemic. We don't know what the nex...
DR. JUDITH HARTNER We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
DICK THOMPSON Given where we are, with the potential for a pandemic, the clearest vision we can have is to dramati...
DAVID REDDY Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.
CATHY NONAS By definition, a pandemic means you are on your own.
ERIC DIETZ We moved forward significantly in our pandemic planning.
DR. ARLENE KING![]()
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has ...
ALAN HUFFMAN No quarantine measure can prevent the pandemic. It can only slow it for a few days.
DMITRY LVOV We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year.
BILL GOSNELL A pandemic historically lasts up to two years and comes in waves.
DAVE DAIGLE We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.
JULIE GERBERDING We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,
IRWIN REDLENER We have no real capacity to make [a pandemic] vaccine right now.
IRA LONGINI We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influ...
DICK THOMPSON![]()
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itsel...
PRINCESS ANNE IRELAND What we're dealing with is small clusters of cases associated with exposure to poultry. We have a st...
MIKE RYAN But it's not going to be contained in Vietnam if we get a pandemic of avian influenza. Within a very...
HANS TROEDSSON We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not go...
IRWIN REDLENER![]()
If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of...
TONY ABBOTT Full liability protection is a requirement for our participation in the development and production o...
LEN LAVENDA This is a very valuable opportunity to have open and frank dialogue as a country about the potential...
CAPT. LYNN SLEPSKI Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further.
ANDREA GAMBOTTO Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further.
DR ANDREA GAMBOTTO A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the worl...
ANTHONY FAUCI Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which...
JACQUES DIOUF![]()
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc...
MARTIN FILLER Humans will ultimately contain any pandemic, as they always have done before.
CHRISTOPHER WOOD We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
DAVID NABARRO Religion is the single worst, and longest running pandemic infecting humankind, without a cure, and ...
SCOTT FEUSTEL We never know when a pandemic is going to hit so it's part of our bio-emergency planning.
DEB STEFFEN Fighting the disease in animals is key to our success in limiting the threat of a human pandemic.
LOUISE FRESCO The Chinese government has a very full, clear understanding on the importance of containing the pand...
XAVIER BERTRAND One of the very important things to point out here is that we are not dealing with a human pandemic ...
DAVID REDDY If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductio...
MARC LIPSITCH Asia is still the weakest link in pandemic preparedness when compared with what is underway in Europ...
PETER CORDINGLEY Prevention is going to be cheaper and more effective than waiting for the pandemic to occur.
DAVID NABARRO There may some who say they cried ‘wolf,’ but I would like to say that this is about long-term p...
MICHAEL LEAVITT It is clear that bird flu will bring appalling statistics to the economies. The epidemic must not be...
IGOR SHUVALOV There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be ...
DAVID NABARRO If Indonesia is to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans it is best to produce it from the H5N1 viru...
HARIADI WIBISONO The plan is long on directions and short on resources for non-federal partners in pandemic preparedn...
JOHN DINGELL![]()
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Patient 1 had not had any known direct contact with poultry, but had cared for her 21-year-old broth...
YOSHIHIRO KAWAOKA We have agreed orders with governments and we will fulfill them. It is important that this is seen s...
ALEXANDER KLAUSER We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity.
ALEX AZAR Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu ...
MIKE GALLAGHER In order to become a pandemic, it will have to change ... And we don't know what that changed strain...
MARC LIPSITCH It is when [not if]. But there is a lot we can do to prepare. If we look back to the last pandemic i...
JACK THE RIPPER![]()
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic her...
PAUL GOSAR![]()
It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER We must still maintain utmost vigilance for and preparations for the next human influenza pandemic.
DAVID NABARRO The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.
JOHN OXFORD Until we see further evidence we are still at phase three of the pandemic alert.
DR MARGARET CHAN
DR. NED CALONGE Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caus...
MICHAEL OSTERHOLM We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain, and we know it will occur, but we don't know...
DICK THOMPSON In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europ...
ALBERT OSTERHAUS There are a lot of scary stories out there about the next pandemic, but we have to make difficult de...
DICK THOMPSON Strong surveillance and response networks for early detection of pandemic virus will make a differen...
KLAUS STOHR If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following...
JIM ROBERTSON If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following...
DR JIM ROBERTSON This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until ...
ZSUZSANNA JAKAB By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable...
DR. SHIGERU OMI The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal ...
DR. CARISSA ETIENNE If we can reduce the presence of the virus, we will reduce the probability of a human pandemic.
BERNARD VALLAT Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certaint...
MICHAEL RYAN To become a pandemic the virus has to go through a number of mutation barriers and from what we have...
FREDERICK LEUNG Flu is a virus that most people have no immunity or build-up to. It could spread worldwide and becom...
EMILY PALMER Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus....
FRANCESCO FRANGIALLI The priority to prevent the pandemic still stands on Asia, but besides that, if the virus is coming ...
JOSEPH DOMENECH We know we're overdue for an influenza pandemic strain and we know it will occur, but we don't know ...
DICK THOMPSON
We are not in a pandemic situation. It is still an animal disease. MARGARET CHAN I think everyone would agree a pandemic is not imminent.
DR. NED CALONGE This is not the start of the pandemic. The start of the pandemic starts when there is human to human...
DR. DAVID NABARRO We are in possession of one of the key ingredients of a potential solution to the pandemic threat.
HOWARD PIEN We're not going to know how lethal the next pandemic is going to be until the pandemic begins. You c...
DICK THOMPSON The difference between a pandemic flu plan and other disease plans is that in a pandemic, we assume ...
LEAH BINDER The idea is simple. The fear is that the bird virus will re-assort with a human virus and generate a...
DANIEL PEREZ I think it is totally unreasonable on the basis of every pandemic we've had. Every earlier pandemic ...
EDWIN KILBOURNE An influenza pandemic has a very significant potential to cause rapid increases in death and illness...
ANTHONY GRIFFIN It's not a question of if but when. It may be not this strand of virus but another one down the road...
PAUL SWIERGOSZ [The finding that Spanish flu came straight from birds has raised concerns among scientists. Previou...
RONALD ATLAS It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and th...
ANTHONY FAUCI The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, a...
ALEX AZAR An intranasal pandemic vaccine may help facilitate and expedite influenza vaccinations for more Amer...
JAMES YOUNG The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
STEPHEN LEWIS Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront.
DAN SLAVIN There is general agreement that there will be another human influenza pandemic. The question is not ...
JAMES TRACY The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.
DICK THOMPSON It's been over 30 years since we've had a pandemic, so inevitably we are going to have a pandemic wi...
ANTHONY FAUCI We currently have no evidence that a pandemic flu in this country is imminent. That said, we are fai...
FRAN TOWNSEND Commissioner Sam Brentano has been particularity interested in county preparations for pandemic flu.
SHAWN BAIRD And that would be the pandemic.
APHALUCK BHATIASEVI There is a window of opportunity right now to reduce the risk. What we know is that we need to act r...
LOUISE FRESCO There is a window of opportunity right now to reduce the risk, ... What we know is that we need to a...
LOUISE FRESCO
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. MARGARET CHAN It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it ...
WILLIAM ALDIS As long as H5N1 remains a bird virus, the threat to human health is not grave. But influenza viruses...
DR. CARISSA ETIENNE We don't have enough if a pandemic happened tomorrow.
EDWIN KILBOURNE It's a global pandemic. It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue i...
DUANE GUBLER We have no protection against it and that is the beginning of a pandemic. We don't know what the nex...
DR. JUDITH HARTNER We keep encouraging countries to develop a plan because a pandemic is inevitable.
DICK THOMPSON Given where we are, with the potential for a pandemic, the clearest vision we can have is to dramati...
DAVID REDDY Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.
CATHY NONAS By definition, a pandemic means you are on your own.
ERIC DIETZ We moved forward significantly in our pandemic planning.
DR. ARLENE KING
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has ... ALAN HUFFMAN No quarantine measure can prevent the pandemic. It can only slow it for a few days.
DMITRY LVOV We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year.
BILL GOSNELL A pandemic historically lasts up to two years and comes in waves.
DAVE DAIGLE We've probably never been closer to a pandemic than the year 1917.
JULIE GERBERDING We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now,
IRWIN REDLENER We have no real capacity to make [a pandemic] vaccine right now.
IRA LONGINI We are concerned that the virus infects a human that already has contracted a strain of normal influ...
DICK THOMPSON
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itsel... PRINCESS ANNE IRELAND What we're dealing with is small clusters of cases associated with exposure to poultry. We have a st...
MIKE RYAN But it's not going to be contained in Vietnam if we get a pandemic of avian influenza. Within a very...
HANS TROEDSSON We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not go...
IRWIN REDLENER
If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of... TONY ABBOTT Full liability protection is a requirement for our participation in the development and production o...
LEN LAVENDA This is a very valuable opportunity to have open and frank dialogue as a country about the potential...
CAPT. LYNN SLEPSKI Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further.
ANDREA GAMBOTTO Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further.
DR ANDREA GAMBOTTO A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the worl...
ANTHONY FAUCI Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which...
JACQUES DIOUF
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the soc... MARTIN FILLER Humans will ultimately contain any pandemic, as they always have done before.
CHRISTOPHER WOOD We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
DAVID NABARRO Religion is the single worst, and longest running pandemic infecting humankind, without a cure, and ...
SCOTT FEUSTEL We never know when a pandemic is going to hit so it's part of our bio-emergency planning.
DEB STEFFEN Fighting the disease in animals is key to our success in limiting the threat of a human pandemic.
LOUISE FRESCO The Chinese government has a very full, clear understanding on the importance of containing the pand...
XAVIER BERTRAND One of the very important things to point out here is that we are not dealing with a human pandemic ...
DAVID REDDY If a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is likely to happen, then multiple introductio...
MARC LIPSITCH Asia is still the weakest link in pandemic preparedness when compared with what is underway in Europ...
PETER CORDINGLEY Prevention is going to be cheaper and more effective than waiting for the pandemic to occur.
DAVID NABARRO There may some who say they cried ‘wolf,’ but I would like to say that this is about long-term p...
MICHAEL LEAVITT It is clear that bird flu will bring appalling statistics to the economies. The epidemic must not be...
IGOR SHUVALOV There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be ...
DAVID NABARRO If Indonesia is to develop a bird flu vaccine for humans it is best to produce it from the H5N1 viru...
HARIADI WIBISONO The plan is long on directions and short on resources for non-federal partners in pandemic preparedn...
JOHN DINGELL
Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters. JEFFREY FRY Patient 1 had not had any known direct contact with poultry, but had cared for her 21-year-old broth...
YOSHIHIRO KAWAOKA We have agreed orders with governments and we will fulfill them. It is important that this is seen s...
ALEXANDER KLAUSER We are overdue for the next pandemic. None of us, nobody, would have immunity.
ALEX AZAR Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu ...
MIKE GALLAGHER In order to become a pandemic, it will have to change ... And we don't know what that changed strain...
MARC LIPSITCH It is when [not if]. But there is a lot we can do to prepare. If we look back to the last pandemic i...
JACK THE RIPPER
It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic her... PAUL GOSAR
It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER We must still maintain utmost vigilance for and preparations for the next human influenza pandemic.
DAVID NABARRO The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.
JOHN OXFORD Until we see further evidence we are still at phase three of the pandemic alert.
DR MARGARET CHAN
