Pandemics Quotes

Unlike the influenza pandemics of the past, this time the world has been given a warning that one may be on its way. - Shigeru Omi

This new technology should help provide better global influenza surveillance by making it easier for more laboratories to swiftly identify severe flu strains, which in turn may aid health officials to stem potential flu epidemics and even pandemics. - Kathy Rowlen

There were three pandemics in the last century. Most people alive today lived through two of them without really noticing them. This wasn't a major trauma to societies or economies or even to health systems. So pandemics can occur which have relatively minor effects. - Richard Thompson

The problem with a pandemic is, anything you say before it sounds alarmist. There is a dilemma here. Pandemics happen. They don't happen frequently enough that we live in fear day to day, but they do happen. - Mike Leavitt

That was an extreme of an already rare event. Pandemics normally have more modest death rates. - Dick Thompson

Pandemics of influenza are a lot like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes... We've learned that the virus actually causes massive infection in humans...[and] turns on one's immune system in such a way that it alternately attacks the organs in the body. - Michael Osterholm

Pandemics happen globally but must be managed at the state and local level, and these funds will help communities meet that responsibility. - Mike Leavitt

Pandemics are like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes. - Michael Osterholm