Rick Scott Quotes

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

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.

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.

I think we have other things to worry about than some Zika virus.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They're still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine.

It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations.

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

Zika has arrived on our shores, and the number of local infections is continuing to grow. Thankfully, companies like SpringStar are doing incredible work developing innovative tools to stop the spread of Zika. It's more important than ever that Congress provide the resources to deploy these technologies to the communities who need them.

When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

In the U.S, Zika outbreaks are hopefully going to be easy to isolate. The biggest threat is likely to be from the fear Zika sows, especially among expectant moms.

It's critical that we engage the federal scientific community to further our understanding of COVID-19 as we work to keep communities safe and reduce the spread of the virus.

I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.

I do believe sadly it's going to take some diseases coming back to realize that we need to change and develop vaccines that are safe.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

My fear is that if we don't take remedial steps to control polio in the tribal areas, we will be faced with international sanctions.

We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.