Simone Biles Quotes

History has told us that no one can stop a pandemic. The question is: when is it going to happen? I don't think anybody has the answer to it. We have to be on the lookout for any time, any day.

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.

Every health threat has a different nature and characteristic and appropriate response. Zika is a particular risk to pregnant women who reside in or thinking of traveling to places where Zika is spreading.

Since the first large Zika outbreak ever recognized, in 2007, the CDC has had boots on the ground responding. Our laboratories have developed a test that can confirm Zika in the first week of illness or in a sample from an affected child.

We know Zika's not going to go on vacation.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

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

To be able to detect the outbreak of avian flu anywhere in the world is going to require a partnership of several countries that will share information and samples, but it is important to remember a threat anywhere is a threat everywhere.

While Ebola's deadly reach has proven to be a complex and unique international challenge, the many uncertainties surrounding this virus continue to threaten U.S. national security.

The mosquito has killed more people than anything else in history.

People don’t take it [the Zika Virus] seriously…. They haven’t seen any babies with microcephaly, YET!

Know that the tiger mosquito - Aedes albopictus - sometimes spreads viruses that spread like Zika, so it may be able to spread Zika.

With over 20 million residents and 100 million tourists, we must stay ahead of the possible spread of the Zika virus and take immediate action to ensure Florida is prepared.

The bottom line is, if you're pregnant, don't travel to an area where Zika is spreading.

The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

Zika is an addressable threat. While it falls outside of the regular routine of public health preparedness, we shouldn't be scrambling for new resources each time a threat like Zika starts to emerge.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

The border patrol gave us a list of the diseases that they're concerned about, and Ebola was one of those.

So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.