Avian Quotes

When you get to shootouts, it comes down to who has the most talent. Usually the team with the most talent wins. We have a lot of talent on this team and we're pretty talented up front. - Steve Saviano

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic. - Barack Obama

What would emerge would be a disease as deadly as avian influenza, which currently has a case fatality rate of over 50%, but that moves as easily as seasonal influenza does from person to person. - Dick Thompson

What we've seen today is that the world really does care and wants to respond effectively to the threats of avian influenza and a possible human pandemic. - David Nabarro

What makes you vulnerable is the virulence, the dangerousness, of the virus, and the 1918 virus was one dangerous virus... Avian flu, too - when it infects, it kills. That's why people are scared, and reasonably so. - Paul Offit

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 as a result. - David Nabarro

We're watching the situation with the avian flu very carefully, taking the steps that need to be taken now to help prepare and, most importantly, detect the transfer of that virus into people... But it is a very worrisome situation. - Julie Gerberding

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Well, we are hoping someone listens, and we can get some help and bring these kids in here to see their dad for the last time. - Parviz Razavian

We think that the condition of veterinary infrastructure in eastern Turkey led to this delay on the information. To manage avian flu in animals, time is a crucial point because if a country is in a position to have a rapid response within two days, the cost of the management is very low, compared with a delay of three or four days. The spread of the disease is exponential, which is why time is crucial. - Bernard Vallat