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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially wild animals. And we increasingly know which parts of the world pose the greatest risk for future incursions. -- Nathan Wolfe
Chucky become a pandemic part of pop culture, definitely. -- David Kirschner
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world. -- Anthony S. Fauci
No war on the face of the Earth is more destructive than the AIDS pandemic. -- Colin Powell
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic. -- Margaret Chan
I'm especially interested in helping to give visibility to the pandemic of violence against women -- Nicole Kidman
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu. -- Lois Capps
It could be said that the AIDS pandemic is a classic own-goal scored by the human race against itself. -- Anne, Queen of Great Britain
Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. -- Margaret Chan
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 LappÃ©
Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola... -- Mark Pryor
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. -- Nathan Wolfe
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a global immune system. -- Nathan Wolfe
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease. -- Alan Huffman
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long. -- Nathan Wolfe
Some doomsayers think the collapse will be triggered by runaway government spending, excessive taxation, oppressive regulation, food shortages, fuel shortages or natural disasters such as deadly pandemics or lethal changes in the world's climate. -- Robert Higgs

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