Influenza Quotes

It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.

Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.

The influenza virus...represents an epidemic threat to the citizens of all countries. Multiple therapies are likely to be required to prevent and to treat influenza.

At the time of writing, there is considerable trepidation that we could be in for something even worse (than the influenza pandemic of 1918-19),

Influenza viruses spread very rapidly ... this is a disaster waiting to happen.

And what this paper in the Lancet really attests to is the need for us to have really good surveillance for the emergence of drug resistant influenza, and the emergence of novel strains or new strains of influenza, so that we can move quickly to prevent the spread of these influenza viruses when they occur,