If there is a pandemic, international travel will almost cease I suspect for a significant period of time.

Are we adequately prepared? … No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and...

Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe.

Maintaining vigilance is going to be a long and exhausting process. Nobody can say with any certainty when a pandemic virus will emerge.

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...

Grave security concerns can arise as a result of demographic trends, chronic poverty, economic inequality, environmental degradation, pandemic diseases, organized crime, repressive governance and other developments no state can control alone. Arms can’t address such...

Experts tell us that it is not a matter of if a pandemic will hit, it’s a matter of when. It does tend to go in cycles. If a pandemic reaches Idaho soil, state health...

And experience shows if you get the animal side right, one substantially reduces the risk of a human pandemic,

Given where we are, with the potential for a pandemic, the clearest vision we can have is to dramatically increase the availability of this drug and make all information available.

Because we know that liability is an issue that keeps companies away from making vaccines, we need to resolve this, particularly when it comes to making vaccines for an influenza pandemic.

Health officials feel that a pandemic flu is likely to occur and no one’s calling the avian flu the next pandemic, but we know that, sooner or later, something is going to happen. So, we...

Failure to act now… will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths.

A pandemic is unique among disasters. It could happen in 5,000 different communities around the world at the same time, and no central place can manage all of those difficulties, and so local communities need...

A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation...

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.

I believe the momentum that is now building up will give us a chance to change the course of history and head off a pandemic caused by the H5N1 virus.

No state is as prepared as they need to be for a pandemic, nor is the federal government.

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...

In 1918, it was and 30-year-olds, but we won’t know which group is being affected until a pandemic is actually under way.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

Even if bird flu isn’t the culprit, there almost certainly will be a disastrous pandemic of some sort in the next 20 years… And if we continue on our present course, the U.S. will not...

Avian flu or H5N1 is still primarily a disease among animals, … Human deaths have been almost exclusively among humans who came into contact with infected birds. The virus has not shown itself to be...

If a pandemic hits our shores, it will affect almost every sector of our society, not just health care, but transportation systems, workplaces, schools, public safety and more,

A pandemic is different than any other disaster that we’ve ever managed.

Bird flu today is not a problem for travelers. There is no case of a traveler contracting the virus. The day a pandemic will start, the picture will change totally.

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.

An intranasal pandemic vaccine may help facilitate and expedite influenza vaccinations for more Americans in the event of a pandemic outbreak.

It is infectious between people and it quickly became the first global pandemic of this century, mainly due to global travel.

Frankly, there will be a pandemic, sooner or later.

It’s not a matter of if, but when we might see another pandemic.

A major part of our domestic plan needs to be domestic capacity, because in a pandemic, the emergency will be managed across the globe… Anyone with a supply produced in their country will want to...

Even if you take every year the problems of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV /AIDS, which are horrible, pandemic influenza has the potential in just one fell swoop to kill so many more people than those...

By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable us to contain a virus with pandemic potential.

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.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

If you’re a bird, it’s a pandemic. If you’re a human being, it’s not.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europe.

It is very important to recognize that the money that we spend now will not be wasted even if this particular strain of the virus, H5N1, ends up not becoming a pandemic flu… We know...

Information is probably the most important thing we can do — sharing information, communicating with citizens, businesses, health care industry — so that everybody can think about what they need to do, what is their...

If we received these samples from animals we would know what kind of changes the virus is undergoing, which is very, very vital in fighting against any potential pandemic.

In our lifetime, we have not seen a disease sweep through a community and people die so fast that there’s no one to take care of them at the hospital and there’s no one to...

in case of a pandemic, the EU is prepared to short-circuit the normal approval procedure for vaccines, which could take up to eight months.

It’s true that scientists caution us and warn us that there will be a pandemic, … If there is one, then worldwide there will be a large number of deaths.

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or...

It would be my assessment that no nation is adequately prepared for a pandemic avian flu, … (However) I believe that most nations are improving and preparation is increasing.

A pandemic will cause disease outbreaks in many different communities all at the same time,

No one would be asked to perform tasks or duties they aren’t fully qualified of doing. We need to cast a large net to involve many people in the community because a pandemic flu outbreak...

It’s the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential...

The principal goal of Bush’s plan is the capacity for every American to have a vaccine in the case of a pandemic, no matter what the virus is.