Pandemics Quotes
Pandemics Quote of the day
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.
For the first time in history, we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real-time... Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence in her lifetime. This is an appalling human rights violation, yet it remains one of the invisible and under-recognized pandemics of our time.
Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic.
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.