Pandemics Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• As men, we all have something to give. We all have the power to do our own part to stop the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. It is holding us all back.

  Richard Branson

  Girl, Men, Giving

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• Human trafficking is a globally assisted pandemic that generates billions of dollars of income a year.

  Gillian Anderson

  Years, Dollars, Income

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• 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.

  Nathan Wolfe

  Crush, Luck, Importance

  Nathan Wolfe (2011). “The Viral Storm: The Dawn of a New Pandemic Age”, p.6, Macmillan

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• Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

  Mark Pryor

  Ebola, America, Cotton

  "Democratic senator can't judge Obama's Ebola handling" by Jeremy Diamond, edition.cnn.com. October 7, 2014.

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• Take pandemics. There could easily be a severe pandemic. A lot of that comes from something we don't pay much attention to: Eating meat. The meat production industry, the industrial production of meat, uses an immense amount of antibiotics.We're now running out of antibiotics that deal with the threat of rapidly mutating bacteria. A lot of that just comes from the meat production industry. Well, do we worry about it? Well, we ought to be.

  Noam Chomsky

  Running, Worry, Meat

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I had been an activist on the issue of HIV, primarily in the African American and Latino communities here in the U.S. for many years. It was horrifying to me how the pandemic was raging right here in this country but no one was talking about it.

  Gloria Reuben

  Country, Talking, Years

  "Women Around the World Want a Clean Energy Future" by Gloria Reuben, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2010.

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• That the AIDS pandemic is threatening sustainable development in Africa only reinforces the reality that health is at the center of sustainable development.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Fighting, Reality, Hiv

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• There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

  Billy Corgan

  Emergencies, Shows, Suspicious

  "Billy Corgan: Swine flu was 'created by man'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely.

  David Kirschner

  Culture, Pop Culture, Pops

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

  Bill Gates

  War, People, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.

  Lois Capps

  Energy, Climate, Malaria

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• There's so much stigma around HIV/AIDS. It's a challenging issue, and the people that already have been tested and know their status find it very, very hard to disclose their status, to live with that virus, and to even seek out the kind of information they need. This experience of going to South Africa a decade ago really woke me up to the scale of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, how it was affecting women and their children. I haven't been able to walk away from it.

  Annie Lennox

  Children, Issues, People

  "Annie Lennox + Dr. Mitch Besser". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Young people were once considered relatively safe from HIV/AIDS. Today, their lives and futures are at risk throughout the world because of this disease. I believe it is young people throughout the world who offer us the greatest hope for defeating this deadly pandemic.

  Liam Neeson

  Believe, People, Risk

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• In Cuba, what we do not accept is the comparison of our participatory democracy with bourgeois democracy which has not solved anything for humanity. The only thing it has done is to take humanity towards a precarious point. They have created the environmental crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis and the pandemics all over the world. The reason for that is because they have taken the majority of the resources and given it to militarism paid for by the western powers because it is a great business for them; this is the real truth.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Real, Taken, Water

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women

  Nicole Kidman

  Women, Giving, Violence

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• In the southern countries and in the regions and continents like Africa, which is where the origin of life on earth began, there is tremendous debt on humanity, it is one of the most underdeveloped areas and where the worst pandemics exist. In many incidents the European powers that colonized them are now not even capable of helping them.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Origin Of Life, Southern

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with a deep need to "make a dent," as social philosopher Erich Fromm put it. My hunch is that one reason depression is a global pandemic is that the dominant mental map denies so many of us expression of these deep needs and capacities.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Compassion, Expression, Empathy

  "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.

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• We cannot proclaim this century the African Century and then ignore the AIDS pandemic, as some political leaders are apt to do. To claim this century the African Century is to declare war on AIDS.

  Nelson Mandela

  War, Leader, Political

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