Tracking the next pandemic: Avian Flu Talk |
Frightening Quotes on H5N1 |
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Posted: February 18 2006 at 4:22pm |
As we've been scanning the news sources, it's been interesting to tease
out a few of the most telling quotes, especially those in positions where they should really "know." Here are some of the ones that have caught my attention. Please add your own. This is a bomb that will impact the world. -- Thommy Thompson, Former Secretary, US Health and Human Services [The H5N1 pandemic] is an absolute certainty. When it comes to a pandemic we are overdue and we're under-prepared. -- Mike Leavitt, Secretary, US Health and Human Services Anything we say before a pandemic occurs feels like an exaggeration. But any level of preparation that is conducted after is inadequate. So one might ask, is this Y2K all over again? Is this just crying wolf? The reality is this will happen at some point in time. -- Mike Leavitt, Secretary, US Health and Human Services The number of people infected will go beyond billions because between 25 and 30% will fall ill. -- Klaus Stohr, Director, WHO Global Influenza Center This is a very ominous situation for the globe. It is the most important threat we are facing right now. -- Julie Gerberding, US Centers For Disease Control and Prevention We don't know what the fatality will be but we can expect it to be very high. There will be enourmous economic dislocation. Stock markets will close, international travel and trade will be limited. -- Peter Cordingley, WHO regional spokesman The best we can do is try to survive it. We need a Manhattan Project yesterday. -- Paul Gully, Deputy Chief Public Health Officer, Canada Short of thermonuclear war, I have a hard time imagining anything in my lifetime that would be as horrible. -- Laurie Garrett, US Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow for Global Health We're dealing here with world survival issues -- or the survival of the world as we know it. -- David Nabarro, United Nations Senior System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza We can now, in principle, consider the bird population of Europe infected. I fear it might be endemic in Europe by now. -- Albert Osterhaus of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands February 15, 2006 There would be no mutual aid, we'd have to take care of this ourselves. -- Florida Governer Jeb Bush February 15, 2006 If a pandemic hits it's going to be very, very serious for the whole world -- not only the deaths that will occur, but the world economy will tank. People will go and lock themselves in closets. They won't shop, they won't go to movies, they won't get on airplanes, they won't stay in hotels. -- J.W. Marriott Jr, head of Marriott International Inc. February 15, 2006 Only two mutations are needed for it to become easily transmissible among humans. I wake up every morning thinking that today could be the day that I will see a report about a strange case of bird flu among humans. -- David Nabarro, United Nations Senior System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza It is no matter if the flu pandemic will occur or not, it will occur. What we don't know yet is when. -- Joxel Garci, deputy director, Pan American Health Organization The arrival of a pandemic influenza would trigger a reaction that would change the world overnight. A vaccine would not be available for a number of months after the pandemic started, and there are very limited stockpiles of antiviral drugs. Foreign trade and travel would be reduced or even ended in an attempt to stop the virus from entering new countries. It is likely that transportation would also be significantly curtailed domestically, as smaller communities sought to keep the disease contained. -- Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security's National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Professor at the University of Minnesota's School of Public Health Right now there is not sufficient surveillance to detect all cases of avian influenza in humans or in animals. -- Dr. Heymann Executive Director of Communicable Diseases, World Health Organization I would not be surprised if in a period of several months to a year we would see this even in the United States. -- Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases February 17, 2006 |
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I just saw this one. I was thinking it would also fit in "The Funniest BF Quotes of the Day" 'Adequate' plans in place for bird flu outbreak 19.02.06 1.00pm A reassurance has been offered that adequate plans are in place, should bird flu strike in New Zealand sooner than expected. Prep-On |
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I'm not a ribbering Jidiot!
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These are the kinds of things I have been saying are worthless statements.
Kinda like when an asteroid hits the planet and we go dark and cold from the cloud of dust and gas that will envelope the planet. Look we might have a pandemic, and many might get sick and some will die, but doom and gloom, well it just ain't american! Since when did we become scaredy cats?? Is it from 24/7 cable news and the internet? Where there is nothing else to report so we find the things that scare people the most? I really do not get these comments. |
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NP, sorry you feel that way and find it necessary to belittle those of us who take the threat seriously and put in the time and effort essential to the protection of our families. Each here would be thrilled to wake up tomorrow and find out that the threat has gone away. Each of us would celebrate the money that we've spent was for naught and find other uses for the items or donate them to charity. Each of us would be elated to learn that we worried and stressed for a non-event. And each of us would bow our heads and thank our respective Gods for sparing us the nightmare that we choose to take seriously and prepare for. |
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Well actually, I, have been trying to educate myself away from the Internet and News. I bought 3 books, to read. The 1st one was the Great Influenza, by John Barry, 2nd is Everything you need to know about Bird Flu, by Jo Revill( British author) and the 3rd is the Coming Plague by Laurie Garrett. I have read the 1st book and I'm halfways thru the 2nd. There is a real problem out there. But don't take my word go out and find out, yourself. You don't have to rely on the News and the Internet, find your own sources, ones which you trust. |
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