Pandemics Quotes

• 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.

  Bill Gates

  Mean, Doe, Next

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think pandemics make us afraid of death, I think they make us afraid of oblivion. They force us to grapple with the futility of effort. Also they make us barf which isn't fun either... Wash your hands, cover your coughs, and find a way to hold in balance the futility of effort with the necessity to struggle.

  John Green

  Fun, Struggle, Thinking

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• You can't put a price tag on preparation for a pandemic.

  Richard E. Besser

  Funny Love, Price Tag, Preparation

  Source: content.time.com

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• Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

  Bill Gates

  Important, Nuclear, Climate

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.

  Irwin Redlener

  Care, Pay, Failing

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• After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

  Margaret Chan

  Humanity, Threat

  "When a pandemic isn't a pandemic" by Elizabeth Cohen, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2009.

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• The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

  Bill Gates

  People, World, Flu

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• 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

  Thinking, Mind, Nuclear

  "Grounding a Pandemic". New York Times OpEd by Barack Obama and Richard Lugar, www.nytimes.com. June 06, 2005.

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• It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity.

  Barbara Lee

  Life And Death, Humanity, Survival

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• The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Animal, Viruses, Globalization

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• A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Religious, Humanity, Environmental

  Pope Benedict XVI's Urbi et Orbi Message, press.vatican.va. December 25, 2005.

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• In a world where millions of human beings live in extreme poverty, die of malnutrition and lack medical care, where pandemics continue to kill, it is imperative to pursue good faith disarmament negotiations and to shift budgets away from weapons production, war-mongering, surveillance of private persons and devote available resources to address global challenges including humanitarian relief, environmental protection, climate change mitigation and adaptation, prevention of pandemics, and the development of a green economy.

  Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

  War, Challenges, Environmental

  "UN Expert Urges States to Cut Military Spending and Invest More in Human Development". www.ohchr.org. April 14, 2014.

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• Without equity, pandemic battles will fail. Viruses will simply recirculate, and perhaps undergo mutations or changes that render vaccines useless, passing through the unprotected populations of the planet.

  Laurie Garrett

  Vaccines, Battle, Viruses

  "'Contagion' is part reality, part fantasy, totally possible" by Laurie Garrett, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2011.

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• Let's pretend there's a pandemic. Let's everybody run around and play your role. Main result is that there is tremendous confusion. ... Nobody knows who's in charge. Nobody knows the chain of command.

  Laurie Garrett

  Running, Motivation, Inspiration

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

  Margaret Chan

  Issues, Influenza, Solutions

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

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Mean, World, Influenza

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

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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, Fierce

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

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• For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care.

  Margaret Chan

  Worry, People, Challenges

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Running, Believe, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic.

  Colin Powell

  War, Earth, Faces

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

  Margaret Chan

  Country, Taken, World

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

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• 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.

  Julie Gerberding

  Common Sense, Able, Kind

  "Health agency: SARS pandemic can be avoided". www.cnn.com. April 28, 2003.

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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, Viruses

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

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• Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.

  Martin Filler

  Religious, Art, Upheaval

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• 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.

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Rights, Abuse

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