56 Swine Flu Quotes

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Famous Swine Flu Quotes

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. — Margaret Chan

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution. — Margaret Chan

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world. — Margaret Chan

When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me. — Kim Hyun-joong

The first wave of the bioterrorism is a respiratory virus that spread across the world, and affected relatively few people—about one percent of many populations—but generated great fear. — Peter A. McCullough

Recent studies indicate that COVID-19's fatality rate is closer to influenza's than expected. — Peter Attia

In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy. — Peter Piot

More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk. — Bruce Schneier

It is a good idea for everyone who does not have contra-indications to receive a flu shot. — Amy Johnson

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. — Shannon Fife

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we’ve seen - or even imagined. — Tom Frieden

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control. — Chris Brown

Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history. — Larry Brilliant

Both the respiratory virus and the vaccine delivered to the human body contain the spike protein, the gain of function target of this bioterrorism research. — Peter A. McCullough

It takes a variety of strategies and initiatives to address this pandemic. It's about life and death and the survival of humanity. — Barbara Lee

Flu Quotes

I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence. — Michele Bachmann

With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, "Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? — Jay Leno

Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance? — David Letterman

Before getting meningitis, I was such a hypochondriac, worrying about the slightest ache. Ironically, I overlooked meningitis because the symptoms seemed like flu. I guess you don't realise how healthy you are until it is taken away from you. — Petra Stunt

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497. — Warren Buffett

In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough. — Viera Scheibner

There we times when everybody in the house has the flu. You're cleaning up vomit and it's 2 in the morning, and you're wishing there was somebody else there to help you. — Meg Tilly

It simply isn't fair for senators to cut to the front of the line when seniors around the country have been forced to wait for hours to get a flu shot. — Dick Durbin

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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. — Barack Obama

Bird Flu Quotes

There is no bird flu in commercial stocks. — Michael E. Mann

The guy was infected with bird flu because he took a sick chicken, slaughtered it and and then ate it. — Thaksin Shinawatra

For me pressure is bird flu. I'm serious. I'm feeling a lot of pressure with the problem in Scotland. It's not fun and I'm more scared of it than football. Football is nothing compared with life. For me bird flu is the drama of the last few days. I'll have to buy a mask. — Jose Mourinho

The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu. — David L. Katz

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down. — Max Brooks

For the planet's sake, I hope we have bird flu or some other thing that will reduce the population, because otherwise we're doomed. — Susan Blackmore

There are boys you look at and want to touch with your mouth, and there are boys you look at and want to wear one of those surgical masks everyone in China had during bird flu. There are a lot more bird-flu boys at large. — Laini Taylor

The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. — Craig Ferguson

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me. — Chuck Klosterman

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out. — Margaret Chan

Flu Vaccine Quotes

The President has once again failed us. Millions of Americans are at risk of going without the flu vaccine this year because the administration failed to act proactively to ensure an adequate supply. There is simply no excuse for this. — Jon Corzine

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus. — Michael Burgess

With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some immunity that carries over from year to year; but about every 30 years, there is a major change in the genetics of the flu virus. — Michael C. Burgess

Only after realising that routine immunisations were dangerous did I achieve a substantial drop in infant death rates. — Archie Kalokerinos

When I think of cancer prevention, I think of cancer vaccines, but I think more broadly of all that we can do to prevent cancer. And part of that is coming up with a vaccine that will work like the vaccines we have for hepatitis B or flu or polio. — Laurie Glimcher

Flu vaccine is far and away the most underutilized. — Paul A. Offit

Take charge of hidden, sneaky sources of chronic inflammation that can trigger illness and disease by wearing comfortable shoes daily, getting an annual flu vaccine, and asking your doctor why you're not on a statin and baby aspirin if you're over the age of forty. — David Agus

Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not. — Michael Specter

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children. — Anthony S. Fauci

I am a huge believer in the flu vaccine. I have had it every year and have never had the flu. — Sarah Chalke

People Writing About Swine Flu

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Margaret Chan
quotes on culture, education and prayer

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Peter A. McCullough
quotes on education, religion and leadership

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Kim Hyun-joong
quotes on kim hyun joong, love and friendship

17 159

Peter Attia
quotes on exercise, science of longevity and healthspan

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Bruce Schneier
quotes on leadership, technology and intelligence

73 744

Chris Brown
quotes on life

68 1725

More Swine Flu Quotes

With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important. — Kristi Yamaguchi

Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning. — Phil Gingrey

I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak. — Bill Burr

Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering. — Charles Krauthammer

I am so pro-swine flu it's - it's like ridiculous. — Bill Burr

Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it's a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa. — Paddy Ashdown

We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back. — James Patterson

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