Margaret Chan Quotes

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

I'm for increased funding for the Centers for Disease Control.

Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.

One of my first priorities as a new member of Congress in 2019 was to visit the CDC and learn firsthand about what they needed to help protect Americans. After my visit, I learned their budget had previously been cut, and that they needed funding to modernize their data systems to help prevent pandemics and other public health crises.

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

When I thought about having the greatest impact with my life, I thought about all the times people lose loved ones because diseases weren't detected early enough. I thought, 'I can play a role there.'

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

It’s not the mosquitoes who spread the disease [Zika]. Mosquitoes don’t travel more than 500 yards from where they are born. It’s the people. They travel.

As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.

At CDC, we work 24/7 to save lives and protect people.

Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.

I think Tom Frieden, the CDC director, is a good man, is a good doctor and, I think, basically has done a good job.

I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe.

I love that the work that we do is so vital to science. We're in a lot of ways at the scientific front line. The work that we're doing to build up the computational defense system for infectious diseases, whether it's finding the vaccine as fast as possible this time or next time to detect early outbreaks.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

Check disease in its approach.

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

Distance is the only cure for certain diseases.