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Pandemic Quotes

Lessons from disease and public response.

These pandemic quotes examine disease outbreaks and public health strategy, from historic flu deaths to the value of early warning, related to Disease quotes.

More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

What works most effectively for quelling disease outbreaks like Ebola is not quarantining huge populations. What works is focusing on and isolating the sick and those in direct contact with them as they are at highest risk of infection. This...

Quotes by Tom Frieden

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you're never going to defeat this pandemic.

Quotes by Stephen Lewis

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Quotes by Stephen Lewis

About Quotes

It is inconceivable that releasing an illegal immigrant that could cause a tuberculosis pandemic here in the U.S. would ever be considered as a possible option.

Quotes by Paul Gosar

If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.

Quotes by Nathan Wolfe

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,...

Quotes by Martin Filler

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

Quotes by Margaret Chan

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.

Quotes by Margaret Chan

Activate Quotes

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.

Quotes by Margaret Chan

Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5.

Quotes by Margaret Chan

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.

Quotes by Margaret Chan

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

Quotes by Margaret Chan

There is no governing structure for a pandemic, and little more than vague political pressure to ensure limited access to life-sparing tools and medicines for more than half the world population.

Quotes by Laurie Garrett

Care Quotes

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.

Quotes by Laurie Garrett

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.

Quotes by Irwin Redlener

In every community, there are a number of 'social super-spreaders' among us. Long-suspected and emphatically confirmed by our data, these are people who - through dint of their job, or lifestyle, or perhaps even genetic makeup - would be more...

Quotes by Hannah Fry

But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.

Quotes by Hannah Fry

At some point in the future - possibly the very near future - Britain will be hit by a deadly pandemic, and its impact could be utterly devastating.

Quotes by Hannah Fry

Disease Quotes

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

Quotes by Gro Harlem Brundtland

Frequently Asked Questions

What historical pandemic is referenced in these quotes?
One quote cites the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, noting it killed more than 50 million people worldwide and shaped ongoing epidemiological tracking.
What containment strategy is favored in these quotes?
One quote argues that focusing on and isolating the sick and their direct contacts works better than quarantining huge populations during outbreaks like Ebola.
Why is early warning emphasized in these pandemic quotes?
One quote argues that even a few months of early warning for one pandemic would outweigh all the time and energy spent building such systems.
Is a specific disease's pandemic status discussed here?
Yes, one quote describes the AIDS pandemic as a gender-based disease, framing it within a broader public health context.
Where can I read more quotes about disease and health?
For a broader collection on this topic, see the related Disease collection.

A few lines also discuss effective outbreak containment methods, a topic worth pairing with Care and About quotes.