Pandemic Quotes

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.

The term pandemic applies when there is a big, big animal reservoir of the virus and no underlying immunity, and those conditions exist today.

We needed capacity. ID Biomedical is a top-rate outfit, they have state-of-the-art facilities and we`re very excited about the chance to invest and expand capacity and to further advance our flu-pandemic and our improved flu vaccines.

We`re going to need very large volumes of flu vaccine for the pandemic. Having access to this additional capacity will be a big benefit for us.

Sooner or later, there will be pandemic flu. Is it gonna be this one? Is it gonna be the next one? Is it gonna be the next one? No one can tell.

One is that if women`s sexuality in Africa wasn`t under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren`t subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn`t have a pandemic.

Unless there is recognition that women are most vulnerable... and you do something about social and cultural equality for women, you`re never going to defeat this pandemic.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

Because the title poem is about one man`s response to being infected with HIV, I can understand why readers would focus the book around the pandemic.

Giant does not have a formal pandemic preparedness plan. The feeling is that we have enough employees -- we have over 25,000 employees. If the need arose, we could move these employees around quite a bit to wherever the greatest operational need within the company would be to keep our stores open.

If necessary, even before a pandemic, we`ll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following it along, and hopefully be keeping up with it. If, when a pandemic strikes and it is H5, we`ll pounce on that virus immediately,

It is important that we continue to build our capacity to respond to public emergencies, which could include natural disasters, a viral pandemic or a major disruption to our province`s energy supply or communications infrastructure.

We might be able to find ways that we can mitigate this. And we should be doing this in quiet time before a pandemic rather than under pressure should one erupt.

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),

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