“A severe disease that transmits easily will leave very little international surge capacity as most countries will need their own staff and resources to combat the outbreak in their territories.” NeedsLittlesCountryDiseaseResourcesCapacityInternationalTerritoryCombatStaffSevereTransmitOutbreaks Author:Margaret Chan
“"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows across - permeates - the boundaries of the self.” SelfInfluenceDiseaseFlowBoundariesItalianOutbreaksInfluenza Author:Laura Mullen
“All of a sudden people in the United States start to realize that vaccines make a difference. The controversy and the myth that's there, we're always trying to bust through that. So when I see a disease outbreak, I say to myself, "OK, that'll get people realizing how lucky we are to have vaccines."” PeopleTryingStatesRealizingDifferencesUnitedUnited StatesLuckyDiseaseMythMaking A DifferenceControversyAlways TryingVaccinesOutbreaks Author:Melinda Gates
“The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000 meters because of colder temperatures there. But with recent warming trends, those mosquitoes have now been reported at 1,240 meters in Costa Rica and at 2,200 meters in Columbia. Malaria-bearing mosquitoes, too, have moved to higher elevations in central Africa, Asia, and parts of Latin America, triggering new outbreaks of the disease.” AmericaHigherDiseaseMovedSpreadGlobal WarmingLatinTrendsYellowAsiaTemperatureFeverLatin AmericaMeterElevationColumbiaMosquitoesMalariaOutbreaksCosta RicaYellow Fever Author:Ross Gelbspan
“Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenStillsIdeasEndsResultsCasesGoneDiseaseKillingPopulationSpreadWickedAutisticEnd ResultsImmunityOutbreaksMeaslesWicked Ways Author:Margaret Atwood