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In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy -- Peter Piot
Sending us Ebola bombs in the form of sweaty Glaswegians just isn't cricket. -- Katie Hopkins
If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party, they're contagious and you can catch it from them. -- Rand Paul
Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. -- Phil Gingrey
This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast. -- Vincent Martin
We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates, -- Anthony S. Fauci
It is certainly possible that someone who has had contact with this patient could develop Ebola, but there is no doubt in my mind that we will stop it here. -- Tom Frieden
The bottom line here is that I have no doubt that we will control this importation or this case of Ebola so that it does not spread widely throughout this country. There's no doubt in my mind, we will stop it here. -- Tom Frieden
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse in the very near future. There is still a window of opportunity to tamp it down, but that window is closing. We really have to act now. -- Tom Frieden
We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola, -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Every time somebody new gets the Ebola virus, it mutates. -- Glenn Beck
Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola... -- Mark Pryor
At first, many people infected with the zombie virus experienced similar symptoms to Ebola. -- Andrew Cormier
Unfortunately, it is possible in the coming days that we will see additional cases of Ebola -- Tom Frieden
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Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale. -- Alpha Conde
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures. -- Anthony S. Fauci
I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola. -- David Quammen
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax. -- Richard Preston
It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever. -- Andrew Cormier
Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!' -- Bill Maher
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, -- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. -- David Letterman
Media outlets that are exploiting Ebola because they want a sensational story and politicians using it to their own ends ought to be ashamed. -- Robert Reich
You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish. -- Richard Preston
Telling people at a dinner party you drive a Nissan Almera is like telling them you've got the Ebola virus and you're about to sneeze. -- Jeremy Clarkson
Ebola then turns the insides of its host into jelly: you begin to vomit black junk which is basically your dissolved liver and internal organs. -- Andrew Cormier
Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola -- Peter Piot
More people are killed by stray bullets every day in America than have been killed by Ebola here. More are dying because of poverty and hunger. -- Robert Reich
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic. -- Bill Gates
Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy." "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives -- Darynda Jones
While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security. -- Marco Rubio
Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently. -- Tom Clancy
Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes. -- Aaron Klein
I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct -- John McCain
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I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact. -- Peter Piot
It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all. -- Bob Geldof
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be living in some reservoir host, presumably some species of animal. -- David Quammen
Sierra Leone and Liberia must remain vigilant, that if you think somebody is sick with Ebola, you must get help immediately. Otherwise there could be a resurgence of Ebola. So everybody must remain vigilant. -- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade has new balloons this year including the Pillsbury Doughboy balloon and the first openly gay balloon. Also the Thomas Tank Engine balloon, and they even have the Ebola nurse balloon. -- David Letterman
Facebook revealed that Ebola was the most popular Facebook topic in the U.S. this year, with the World Cup coming in sixth. So welcome to America, where even Ebola is more popular than soccer. -- Jimmy Fallon
While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength. -- Diana DeGette
If there is a serious outbreak in the UK I doubt voters will risk a Labour government. Time to get serious... Look at Diane Abbott's irresponsible comments on Ebola patients, Mili's open border policy. No. Way. -- Louise Mensch
If you want to survive Ebola, you need to be young. If you're in your late 30s, the death rate is about 80 percent, and if you're over 45, then the death rate goes up to about 90 percent. -- Richard Preston
There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection. -- Anthony Fauci
Ebola has not yet come into contact with modern medicine in West Africa. But when protocols for the provision of high quality supportive care are followed, the case fatality rate for Ebola may be lower than 20 percent. -- Paul Farmer
As a global community, we must ensure that legitimate concerns about liability do not hold back the possibility of developing an Ebola vaccine, an essential strategy in our global response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. -- Sylvia Mathews Burwell
When I was doing 'Executive Orders,' I talked about Ebola to people who know about infectious diseases and their use as weapons of war, and guys told me that these weapons are more psychological than physical. -- Tom Clancy
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The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human. -- David Quammen
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States. -- Mel Robbins
In committing an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces to join international Ebola relief efforts in West Africa, President Obama seems to be fulfilling the plans of highly influential progressive groups who seek to transform the American military into more of a social-work organization. -- Aaron Klein
Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal infection. This may explain why many of the medical workers who came down with Ebola couldn't remember making any mistakes that might have exposed them. -- Richard Preston
Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases. -- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats. -- Craig Ferguson
One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus. -- David Quammen
The heroic New York doctor who caught Ebola has been declared Ebola free. President Obama called the doctor to thank him for his selflessness and compassion. Then to be safe, Obama threw his phone in a trash can and lit it on fire. -- Jimmy Fallon
There may be a little bit of finger-pointing - there always is in a situation like this - but I think of Ebola as an act of nature. It's the biological equivalent of a tsunami, and yes, we are having trouble handling it. -- Richard Preston
The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists. -- Anthony Fauci
The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists. -- Anthony Fauci
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one. -- David Quammen
Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that?" -- Sara Gruen
An Ebola particle is only around eighty nanometres wide and a thousand nanometres long. If it were the size of a piece of spaghetti, then a human hair would be about twelve feet in diameter and would resemble the trunk of a giant redwood tree. -- Richard Preston
Gorillas are in danger of being wiped out by the Ebola virus. I feel like we have limited time to get to know them and understand them and they're going to disappear - that's terrifically sad. Wouldn't it be great if we could stop that? -- Sara Gruen
Everyone needs to remember that Ebola was not a worst-case scenario. Preparedness for the future means preparedness for a very severe disease that spreads via the airborne route or can be transmitted during the incubation period, before an infected person shows telltale signs of illness. -- Margaret Chan
The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation. -- Richard Preston
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We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. -- Anthony S. Fauci
This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it. -- David Nabarro
Society has no business to permit degenerates to reproduce their kind -- Theodore Roosevelt
I could not possibly overstate the need for an urgent response. -- Tom Frieden
The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined. -- Tom Frieden
...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months -- Margaret Chan
People are hungry in these communities. They don't know how they are going to get food. -- Keiji Fukuda
The U.S. must immediately stop all flights from EBOLA infected countries or the plague will start and spread inside our borders. Act fast! -- Donald Trump
Even Doctors Without Borders in West Africa are moving the fatality rate from 50 percent down to 30 percent-I bet we can do substantially better than that here. -- William Schaffner
Depopulation should be the highest priority of foreign policy towards the third world, because the US economy will require large and increasing amounts of minerals from abroad, especially from less developed countries -- Henry A. Kissinger
No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation -- David Spangler
Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go. -- Richard E. Besser
We're very prepared: Infection-control people in hospitals over the past two months have been reviewing all their infection- control procedures because we anticipated just this sort of thing happening-a person coming from West Africa, they were healthy at the time they traveled, but got sick here. -- William Schaffner
What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America? -- Adam Baldwin
EBOLA VIRUS put humanity at a great risk. We must act now and together to prevent further crisis. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Glaswegian ebola patient moved to London's Royal Free Hospital. Not so independent when it matters most are we jocksville? -- Katie Hopkins
Why does the UN need to raise money for ebola? Can't the gov just print the damn dollars themselves and get this done already. -- Azealia Banks
The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences! -- Donald Trump
I love ebola jokes. When done in the right way, maybe it gets people to learn about ebola, to learn about the stigmas behind the identities held by Africans and so on. -- Trevor Noah

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