Influenza Quotes

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

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Taken, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• 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.

  Margaret Chan

  Real, Track, Pandemics

  "Influenza A(H1N1)". www.who.int. April 29, 2009.

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• Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

  Jared Diamond

  Animal, Pigs, Camels

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• My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

  James Rainwater

  Father, Epidemics, Civil Engineer

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• 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.

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Pneumonia, Pandemics

  "WHO increases swine flu alert". www.abc.net.au. April 30, 2009.

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• Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

  Margaret Chan

  Issues, Pandemics, Solutions

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• The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

  Margaret Chan

  Unique, Viruses, Mutation

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• The splendid thing about education is that everyone wants it. Like influenza, you can give it away without losing any of it yourself.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Teacher, Retirement, Teaching

  Evelyn Waugh (1983). “The Essays, Articles and Reviews of Evelyn Waugh”, Methuen

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• The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

  David L. Katz

  War, People, Bird

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• Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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• Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted.

  George Orwell

  Blood, Water, Hunger

  George Orwell (2001). “Orwell and the dispossessed: Down and out in Paris and London in the context of essays, reviews and letters selected from The complete works of George Orwell”, ePenguin

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• This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?

  Orson Scott Card

  Relationship, Feelings, Emotion

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

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• When I think of 'influence', I think of 'influenza', like somebody's picked up a germ.

  Tom Verlaine

  Thinking, Germs, Influence

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• "Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.

  Laura Mullen

  Italian, Self, Disease

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

  David Feherty

  Country, Healthy, Disrespect

  Source: gearpatrol.com

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• There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at a map that shows widespread influenza activity in 36 states, that we regard it -- from a common-sense perspective -- as an epidemic.

  Julie Gerberding

  Thinking, Epidemics, Common Sense

  "CDC head calls flu outbreak 'epidemic'". www.cnn.com. December 19, 2003.

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• 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 much more likely to become ill. That is why some places (New York, for example) are making the vaccine mandatory for school children.

  Michael Specter

  New York, Children, School

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I never indulge in rhyme or stanza Unless I'm in bed with the influenza.

  Quintus Ennius

  Indulge In, Bed, Rhyme

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• This emotion I'm feeling now, this is love, right?" "I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me?" "Yes," she said. "That's influenza," said Miro. "Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.

  Orson Scott Card

  Stupid, Feelings, Nausea

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1250, Macmillan

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

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Mean, Pandemics, World

  "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.

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• 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

  Important, Clarity, Results

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• War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Men, Epidemics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2970, Delphi Classics

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• One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Memories, Cat, Eye

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• My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope.

  Patti Smith

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Viruses, Nasty, Type

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