Influenza Quotes


An influenza pandemic could be the greatest public health challenge of our time. - Sandra Shewry



Along with the overreaching department plan, each combatant commander must have a plan in place to address pandemic influenza, a potentially very infectious disease. Some people may be sick for a while, and the commanders have to project how this could affect their ability to perform the mission. - Ellen Embrey



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



Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don't think we can wait around and not worry it won't start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to prepare. - David Nabarro



According to our Eastern Mediterranean office, it's been dismissed as a case ... they got back to us that it was not avian influenza. - Maria Cheng



About 30 percent of ducks might be carrying some form of low pathogenic avian influenza, which doesn't hurt them or other ducks or animals that they might interact with. - Peter Marra



A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively. - Margaret Chan



A flu pandemic is when it really gets widespread worldwide and that's what we're talking about- the type of influenza that would be easily transmitted between our population. - Robert Guerrero



`Ye can call it influenza if ye like,' said Mrs Machin. `There was no influenza in my young days. We called a cold a cold.' - Arnold Bennett



[That is] something that we're evaluating very carefully to determine whether or not there's anything about this particular flu strain that's preferentially affecting children or causing more severe disease in children... We don't know the answer to the question yet. It is common for children to develop severe influenza and for deaths to occur in every flu season, unfortunately, so it will take us some time to figure that out. - Julie Gerberding



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