Emanuel Azenberg Quotes

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

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.

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

There is no known cure for the Presidential virus other than embalming fluid.

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

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

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

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

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.

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.

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

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

We live in a world at constant risk of public health emergencies. In our increasingly interconnected world, public health emergencies can affect anyone, anywhere.

In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.

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

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

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

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.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

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

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

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

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.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.