More than 50 million people around the world died during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic. That's why we have epidemiologists all over the world tracking whether new strains of flu emerge.
Tom Frieden
Related Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected. ANTHONY FAUCI [The finding that Spanish flu came straight from birds has raised concerns among scientists. Previou... RONALD ATLAS The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of p... BILL GATES What are the chances that some kind of pandemic flu will devastate world populations again? It's alm... ARTHUR REINGOLD Over the past six months, pandemic flu has come to the forefront. DAN SLAVIN Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You s... IRA LONGINI Even though we're hoping that we're past the peak for this early phase of the season, in past years ... JULIE GERBERDING We continue to recommend flu vaccine as the single best way to protect yourself against the flu. The... TOM FRIEDEN Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people ... NATHAN WOLFE The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a... DAVID L. KATZ My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recor... TOM GLAZER Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost al... E. O. WILSON Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal yea... MARC LIPSITCH Right now, we can make roughly 60 million doses domestically of a normal flu vaccine in a normal yea... MARC LIPSITCH A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu at all, but other respiratory vi... ANN FALSEY Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million... TOM CHATFIELD A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu at all, but other respiratory vi... ANN FALSEY A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu at all, but other respiratory vi... ANN FALSEY A lot of cases that people think are from flu aren't really the flu at all, but other respiratory vi... ANN FALSEY We currently have no evidence that a pandemic flu in this country is imminent. That said, we are fai... FRAN TOWNSEND In terms of the bird flu, which is currently devastating the bird population and has made 150 people... ARTHUR REINGOLD We can't stop (the pandemic flu), and run from it and hide for a year. BILL GOSNELL We are profoundly unprepared to manage a pandemic flu threat right now, IRWIN REDLENER This new technology should help provide better global influenza surveillance by making it easier for... KATHY ROWLEN We have a new outbreak of bird flu. KAO PHAL If we do all this work, and there's no pandemic, you still have 36,000 people die every year of seas... GEORGES BENJAMIN More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament. JUDY MCDERMOTT The difference between a pandemic flu plan and other disease plans is that in a pandemic, we assume ... LEAH BINDER If competition for Kaggle's top talent becomes fierce enough among banks, insurance companies, h... ANTHONY GOLDBLOOM Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further. ANDREA GAMBOTTO Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further. DR ANDREA GAMBOTTO During the last three to four flu seasons, the public health department has had difficulty in obtain... LORENZO CARMON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal ... DR. CARISSA ETIENNE The avian flu may be that next novel strain and it may not be, we just don't know yet. The threat of... JIM MURPHY Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - come... NATHAN WOLFE Commissioner Sam Brentano has been particularity interested in county preparations for pandemic flu. SHAWN BAIRD (The) bird flu pandemic poses a devastating effect to millions of people in Africa who depend heavil... MAZLAN JUSOH Experts agree that a bird flu pandemic could strike and race across the world like wildfire, but exp... BRENDAN CONWAY During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million. WITOLD PILECKI It goes without saying to this group that there could be no bigger challenge than to try and plan ef... DENNIS ELLIS Such storage of virus strains resemble duplicating machines in that we can quickly copy and update a... WANG XIAOFANG We believe, for just a regular flu season without the avian flu, yes, we have enough. JANE DUFFIELD We started from zero five weeks ago to all this hot, hot spotlight on pandemic flu, but we're not go... IRWIN REDLENER Currently the world capability is somewhere less than 500 million doses of vaccine with, you know, c... DR. ANTHONY FAUCI If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the... JEAN-MARIE LE PEN In normal flu years, most of us have immunity, either from the vaccine or from having the flu in pre... MARC LIPSITCH In normal flu years, most of us have immunity, either from the vaccine or from having the flu in pre... MARC LIPSITCH Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happen... MAX BROOKS Flu is a virus that most people have no immunity or build-up to. It could spread worldwide and becom... EMILY PALMER Leave it to an Obama supporter to bring up Iraq in the middle of a conversation about the swine flu ... MIKE GALLAGHER The results from Hong Kong arrived earlier today and confirmed that the two had died of bird flu. HARIYADI WIBISONO It is not bird flu. We have the best labs. Not one case of bird flu has been detected. ANURADHA DESAI Would it be the best thing that we spend money to have a vaccine for pandemic flu that never happene... ANTHONY FAUCI More than 820 million people in the world suffer from hunger; and 790 million of them live in the Th... FIDEL CASTRO In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violenc... YUVAL NOAH HARARI It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU Now, it's getting to the point -- in particular with the (bird) flu thing that we may see something ... BOB LANDRY Now we understand much more clearly, ... why people from all over the world want to come to New York... RUDY GIULIANI The two patients have been confirmed to be infected with bird flu in accordance with the standards o... XINHUA AGENCY The two patients have been confirmed to be infected with bird flu in accordance with the standards o... XINHUA NEWS AGENCY We're concerned that with the increased travel during the holidays, the flu situation could worsen. EDUARDO SANCHEZ Asked in 1919 whether it was true that only three people in the world understood the theory of gener... ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON We have the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world. 'America, land of liberty an... GARY JOHNSON With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly h... KRISTI YAMAGUCHI We should have all the necessary flu vaccine serum by mid November. AMY JOHNSON Our soldiers have paid a tragic price to free over 50 million people. In the long term, their sacrif... DAVID MCGREW It's concerning if there is an outbreak of pandemic flu or significant medical problem. The resource... DALE BISHOP This is courtship all the world over - the man all tongue; the woman all ears. EMILY MURPHY There has been this talk about avian flu in other parts of the world ... but we did not really addre... EMMANUEL IJEWERE Whether it's fair or not, you can't bat an eyelash at the . . . threat of a bird flu pandemic and ho... JAKE DOLLARHIDE I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it's impossib... ROALD DAHL We are in outbreak mode. We are seeing much more evidence of flu than we normally see. DR. ROGER BAXTER We expect to generate more than $60 million this year at our campuses around the world, ... That num... JACK HAWKINS People have gone to sleep on HIV. We know more about mad cow disease in England or the bird flu. PERNESSA SEELE I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th... JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc... DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ... DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West... APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv... NICKOLE SANDERS When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have register... LAURA BUSH I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everyb... ANNIE LENNOX Our trade opens to all the world. EZRA STILES We definitely think, in children in particular, that this vaccine is as good or better than the stan... JAMES KING Preparing the world for a pandemic flu outbreak is a top priority, and we're looking at various opti... CHRISTINA PEARSON The UK's disease-free status for avian flu is not altered here. We've got an avian flu in quarantine... DEBBY REYNOLDS The high end, if that (97-million) is reached, it will be the largest amount of flu vaccine ever mad... LOLA RUSSELL Simply washing your hands during cold and flu season is a much more effective way of preventing cold... DAVID KROLL There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 mi... DIKEMBE MUTOMBO With the absence of a flu vaccination last year, I did not take a flu shot; but there is still some ... MICHAEL BURGESS This is a comment on fear. Today it's like 'They're going to bomb the New York subway and there's th... ADAM GOLLNER A lot of people have opened their eyes now. The game is getting played more and more all around the ... CARLOS ARROYO And if avian flu develops into a pandemic human strain - as many experts fear it may - the vaccine m... ANDREA GAMBOTTO after being married to Bill for more than 50 years, I don't really know where to start. I miss him a... DAVID ALLISON While there is a delay in obtaining flu vaccine, we can be thankful that there has also been a delay... GREGORY POLAND That's because we looked at what happened in the 1918 pandemic. That caused the greatest number of d... DICK THOMPSON By interrupting the flu in children, we may have an impact on your own city or town and reduce the o... JAMES KING Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3... SETH BERKLEY I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES
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