Liza Soberano Quotes

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

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.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

The largest outbreak of bird flu in American history was an H5N2 virus, which led to the deaths of 17 million domestic birds and cost the nation more than $400 million during an outbreak in Pennsylvania that started in 1983.

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

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.

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.

It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

Global pandemics---whether naturally occurring or intentionally spread---pose a greater threat than most man-made weapons of mass destruction.

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

This virus is an enemy that the entire country underestimated from day one and we have paid the price dearly.

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

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

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

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.