In a pandemic, it’s not clear what they would eat, or where they would eat. People may take in less calories, but they’ve still got to eat.

Ninety-five out of 100 will live. But with the nation in crisis, will we have food and water? Are we going to have police and security? Will people come to work at all?

This is looking more and more like an H1N1 1918.

What happens in China is of real concern to us. Most of us have been quite surprised that there has not been some evidence of human disease in China and we always worry if that...

If this projection is correct, we have every reason to believe that this disease may show up in multiple U.S. cities as we continue to travel around the world in unprecedented numbers and speed.

Recent clinical, epidemiological and laboratory evidence suggests that the impact of a pandemic caused by the current H5N1 strain would be similar to that of the 1918-19 pandemic,

Pandemics of influenza are a lot like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes, … We’ve learned that the virus actually causes massive infection in humans…[and] turns on one’s immune system in such a way that it alternately...

The resources required to prepare adequately will be extensive, … But they must be considered in the light of the cost of failing to invest: a global economy that remains in a shambles for several...

That is like trying to fill Lake Superior with a garden hose. That’s just a start.

There clearly have been ongoing changes in the virus itself, and what that means in terms of its adapting to different bird species or its ability to infect other bird species is unclear, but it...

That’s the difference between planning for an F1 hurricane or an F5,

Understand that a lot of the things we need to do to prepare are not related to magic bullets.

What this research does is it provides us with the evidence that we have to look into the eyes of H5 and realize it . . . has the potential to be a cousin of...

The entire world has a long way to go to achieve even the most fundamental levels of preparedness.

Charles Darwin could not have set up a better genetic re-assortment laboratory if he tried.

Plague actually is a commonly occurring disease in the southwestern United States, particularly in rodents, prairie dogs and so forth. Almost any researcher technically could go out and capture the same kind of bacteria by...

We will have enough vaccine in about a year for 1 billion doses.

There have been tremendous improvements in the plan even over the last week to 10 days,

The first thing we have to do is make sure we have good sanitation, which right now for many areas in the Gulf region we have none: no running water, no sewers,

I am convinced with the advent of an early winter in the Northern Hemisphere in just six short months, we will see a resurgence of SARS that could far exceed our experience to date,

Pandemics are like hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes,

It doesn’t matter if we have a vaccine now or not. We can’t make it,

How do you provide food, water … basic security for the population?

Ten years. I believe sometime in that period it will happen. But I couldn’t tell you why.

We believe the avian situation we currently have in Southeast Asia is a perfect set-up for this virus to mutate into a human-to-human transmitted agent, which is a big problem and could lead this to...

We have people congregated in areas [such as the Louisiana Superdome] where agents of infectious disease are at a very high risk, so the potential for disease outbreaks is real.

What we need to be doing now is the basic planning of how we get our communities through 12 to 18 months of a pandemic.

All the other catastrophes we’ve had in the world in recent years at the very most put screen doors on our borders. This would seal shut a six-inch steel door.

I think that this particular report really signifies the first time that anyone from within the financial world, when looking at this issue, kind of had one of those ‘Oh my God’ moments.

I don’t think Maurice really believed this, … Maurice was always provocative.

I think that potentially neuraminidase inhibitors may work if you are already on them as prophylaxis (prevention),

Don’t emphasize what you can buy, emphasize what you can get your hands on. If it happens tonight, how do you deal with order?

Most of the federal government right now is as ill-prepared as any part of society.

That means that very, very limited supply is going to become a lot more limited.

There’s very limited lab space there.

What we need to do is help companies understand where their vulnerabilities are, what products are critical during a pandemic that we must have, such as medical supplies, and how are we going to respond...

It’s the perfect setup. Then you put air travel in and it could be around the world overnight.

You could have a very healthy 25-year-old who was [slightly wounded] during the actual [hurricane] who doesn’t appear to be very sick the first day or two but then actually has a life-threatening infection by...

It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they’re ill.

Anyone could experience this very severe, life-threatening illness,

Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.

We basically are going to have a lot of the world’s population who are going to come through this,

We must plan for a worst-case scenario.

We can predict now 12 to 18 months of stress of watching loved ones die, of wondering if you are going to have food on the table the next day. Those are all things that...

The good news is we can make a vaccine. The bad news, it’s not going to prevent a pandemic in the next 12 to 18 months.

To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could...

You have to take a look at the 1918 experience and realize if 50 to 100 million people died and those numbers come from a recent study from a group of historians that went country...

While the numbers in the study are very small, the resistance and clinical failures here are very important. Resistance could mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.

Clearly this is the No. 1 public health issue on the radar screen.

What we are really attempting to do here is make sure you have antibody defense after you stop the antibiotics, … Should one of those dormant spores come around, we can then take care of...