Julie Gerberding Quotes

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

Mr. Speaker, it is matter of common knowledge that an epidemic of alarming proportions is prevailing throughout the country. Out of an abundant precaution the Senate has ordered the galleries closed, which action, I understand, meets with the approval of the medical authorities, and so I ask unanimous consent that the Speaker be instructed to close the galleries of this House until further action shall be taken by the House.

I don't know … but I think this Ebola epidemic is a form of population control.

If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

There is a cost for investing in pandemic preparedness, but a much bigger cost for not investing in it.

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

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

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.

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.

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

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

This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.

If a country denies it has AIDS, that country will inevitably become an even greater victim.

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.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

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

It entered Egypt at the end of the season when the grasslands turn green, hence in the autumn of the year 748…This epidemic was distinctive in that it did not particularly affect one region and leave another untouched but spread to all parts of the Earth, in the East as in the West…Furthermore, it encompassed not just the human species but also the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and the animals in the field…

If any [news]paper should print in gigantic type, "The cholera has come," I believe half its readers would be in collapse before tea time.

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