Before this study, estimates were all over the map on the transmissibility of pandemic flu.
Marc Lipsitch
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And that would be the pandemic.
Aphaluck Bhatiasevi
The speed of vaccine development will be particularly crucial when the next pandemic arrives.
Peter Palese
No quarantine measure can prevent the pandemic. It can only slow it for a few days.
Dmitry Lvov
The things you would do to prepare for a pandemic are the things you can do for any emergency. The difference being that a hurricane, tornado or blizzard generally hits in a limited area for a limited time.
Christine Pearson
It's inevitable that when the flu pandemic comes...it will have a very serious impact on the health of our country.
Sir Liam Donaldson
Too much time has gone by and even now we seem to focus more on addressing a possible pandemic which is spread from human to human.
Jacques Diouf
What are the chances that some kind of pandemic flu will devastate world populations again? It's almost certain.
Arthur Reingold
There's going to be another influenza pandemic. History teaches us that. We don't know if the current bird flu is the start of that, we don't know when it will hit. It could happen soon or it might be years off.
Mark Jacobs
Until we see further evidence we are still at phase three of the pandemic alert.
Dr Margaret Chan
An intranasal pandemic vaccine may help facilitate and expedite influenza vaccinations for more Americans in the event of a pandemic outbreak.
James Young
While we cannot absolutely prevent a pandemic, we can mitigate its impact.
Sandra Shewry
To become a pandemic the virus has to go through a number of mutation barriers and from what we have found, we are no nearer to that.
Frederick Leung
Bird flu is something we should be prepared for, but even if a pandemic never happens, everything we learn now from this vaccine can be applied to vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.
Dr Andrea Gambotto
We're only missing one more piece before it becomes a pandemic and that is the ability to be transmitted from person to person as opposed to simply from birds or fowl to humans.
Irwin Redlener
We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year.
Bill Gosnell
This is not the start of the pandemic. The start of the pandemic starts when there is human to human transfer, confirmed and sustained.
Dr. David Nabarro
In California alone, scientists estimate a pandemic could cause approximately 35 percent of the population to become ill.
Sandra Shewry
This is the event we're all scared might happen at any time, ... We'd be faced with an event worse than the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.
Neil Ferguson
An influenza pandemic could cause widespread economic and societal disruption and seriously strain our health care system.
Sandra Shewry
We have agreed orders with governments and we will fulfill them. It is important that this is seen separately from the pandemic offers.
Alexander Klauser
An influenza pandemic could be the greatest public health challenge of our time.
Sandra Shewry
A pandemic is not imminent. A pandemic is expected at some point, but recognize it could be a completely different virus.
Dr. Ned Calonge
Expert opinion suggests that these drugs will help to reduce the health impact of a pandemic and could cut the demand for acute hospital beds by as much as 50%.
Sir Liam Donaldson
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 need to be prepared.
Robert Guerrero
The idea is simple. The fear is that the bird virus will re-assort with a human virus and generate a pandemic human flu. If you vaccinate against human influenza, they can't catch it, so you won't get re-assortment.
Daniel Perez
There's consensus. There's clarity. There's cash. There is much better coordination. We should be able to deal with the bird flu epidemic much quicker and ... if the pandemic comes, it will be smaller as a result of what's gone on at this meeting.
David Nabarro
The recommended involvement of youths comes down to the willingness of communities and guardians to openly discuss the dangers of the pandemic with their children.
James Elder
Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.
Cathy Nonas
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.
Dr. Shigeru Omi
We are in possession of one of the key ingredients of a potential solution to the pandemic threat.
Howard Pien
We are looking at what contingencies we should be addressing for a potential pandemic. It is just being very cautious.
John Skalko
The FAO believes that eliminating avian influenza among poultry can delay H5N1 virus turning into a form that would create a human pandemic.
Serge Verniau
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.
David Stout
If we can reduce the presence of the virus, we will reduce the probability of a human pandemic.
Bernard Vallat
We have no protection against it and that is the beginning of a pandemic. We don't know what the next pandemic will be like or where it will start. It will be much more than a health event. It will cripple our economy.
Dr. Judith Hartner
An influenza pandemic has a very significant potential to cause rapid increases in death and illness among all age groups and even among the healthy populations.
Anthony Griffin
There's a potential for a pandemic. That's the ultimate concern.
Susan Haseltine
Only when a pandemic virus strain develops will a vaccine be created, and it will not take long - only about a month.
Mikhail Zurabov
In general we are fairly concerned because we feel the more outbreaks, the more the risk of a pandemic.
Dr. Noureddin Mona
We cannot prevent a flu pandemic, but we can reduce its impact.
Sir Liam Donaldson
Both cases we came up with were very pessimistic. There is no single magic bullet for stopping pandemic flu.
Neil Ferguson
It is when [not if]. But there is a lot we can do to prepare. If we look back to the last pandemic in 1968-9, we didn't have some measures that we now have, like anti-viral drugs.
Jack The Ripper
With the advances of the past five decades, we could ... break the back of the AIDS pandemic, but we need greater political will and action.
Nigel Fisher
No state is as prepared as they need to be for a pandemic, nor is the federal government.
Christina Pearson
The more effort we put at the beginning of the chain, the less likely it is that we're going to have use the tools that we are working on to prevent a pandemic and to treat one if it happens.
Alejandro Thiermann
Prevention is going to be cheaper and more effective than waiting for the pandemic to occur.
David Nabarro
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.
David Reddy
We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now.
Irwin Redlener
It's a global pandemic. It's quite clear that the disease...has evolved. There just is more dengue in the world.
Duane Gubler
It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.
William Aldis
Will it happen in a few months or will it ever happen? We just don't know. But we recognize that somewhere in the near future we will have a pandemic flu caused by something and we have to be prepared.
Barbara Russell
It's reasonable to expect we will have an influenza pandemic again at some point. As far as when that might occur, that really is impossible to predict.
Tracy Murphy
Humans will ultimately contain any pandemic, as they always have done before.
Christopher Wood
Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront.
Dan Slavin
We currently have no evidence that a pandemic flu in this country is imminent. That said, we are fairly warned, and the time to prepare for that pandemic is now.
Fran Townsend
In order to become a pandemic, it will have to change ... And we don't know what that changed strain will do.
Marc Lipsitch
It is clear that bird flu will bring appalling statistics to the economies. The epidemic must not be allowed to evolve into a pandemic, this is the most important thing.
Igor Shuvalov
We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.
David Nabarro
For these kinds of issues one is never completely prepared ... we don't know when it (a pandemic) will occur, we all believe it will at some point (and) we need to make sure that we've done all we can to prepare for it.
Ujjal Dosanjh
Globally it's unbalanced. There would be more bang for the buck if more were invested globally in pandemic vaccine development.
Klaus Stohr
One of the very important things to point out here is that we are not dealing with a human pandemic strain yet, thank goodness.
David Reddy
The goal is to have something, even if imperfect, rather than nothing. The other option is to treat people after they become ill, and that is much more difficult in a pandemic situation.
Cornelia Dekker
Would it be the best thing that we spend money to have a vaccine for pandemic flu that never happened? ... That would be a great outcome as far as I'm concerned.
Anthony S. Fauci
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.
David Stout
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.
William Kelly
It is infectious between people and it quickly became the first global pandemic of this century, mainly due to global travel.
Jonathan Epstein
We have no real capacity to make [a pandemic] vaccine right now.
Ira Longini
There are a number of people in the flu community who think it's very likely that a pandemic is going to come and others who think it's very unlikely.
Kathryn Edwards
The question is not whether we need something like the Red Cross, but whether its capacity is scalable to true catastrophes and multiple disaster events, ... Now we're talking about a pandemic. Where would the Red Cross be?
Kathleen Tierney
It is meant as a fire blanket to contain damage if we receive signals and evidence from the ground that we are moving into the beginning of a pandemic.
Dr Margaret Chan
There is general agreement that there will be another human influenza pandemic. The question is not whether, but when.
James Tracy
A pandemic flu is overdue by about 20 years. We're not panicking right now ... but all the signs are in place.
Nancy Bluhm
The first pandemic of the 21st century could come from Africa, rather than Southeast Asia.
John Oxford
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).
Peter Doherty
We are not in a pandemic situation. It is still an animal disease.
Dr Margaret Chan
We've invited local leaders to attend an exercise in hopes that the city and the county, that we can get together and think about what we'll be needing in the event that this pandemic influenza happens in Marion County. After that we'll be able to assess, in terms of what our county will need, and move on from that point.
Johnny Thompson
We're revamping our plans to address a pandemic.
Jim O'connor
For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives, ... It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.
Dr Margaret Chan
There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be severe, it could be extremely severe.
David Nabarro
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.
Michael Osterholm
Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further.
Dr Andrea Gambotto
Once this occurs, then the prospects for a pandemic increase significantly.
Tony Mazzulli
If we have a pandemic, stores are going to run out of food. It would be a good idea to have things available.
Arnold Monto
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 be prepared to handle it.
Paul Offit
Failure to act now... will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths.
Albert Osterhaus
By definition, a pandemic means you are on your own.
Eric Dietz
We are preparing for fire, flooding and pandemic disease right now. We hope that none of it happens, but we are planning so when it does we are ready.
Ellen Anderson
Europe is very well prepared but I hope there will not be a pandemic in the coming months.
Zsuzsanna Jakab
This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.
Zsuzsanna Jakab
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