Diana DeGette Quotes

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.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

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.

My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans and people around the globe.

In the ongoing effort to combat Ebola, more needs to be done to rewrite the public-health narrative. It must move from one that has been infused with fear to one that recognizes the hope for survival that supportive care can offer infected people.

What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?

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

We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate.

Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

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.

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

What the experts are telling me is that there's very little chance that Ebola is going to mutate into something that could spread directly through the air. The real concern is not whether Ebola could go airborne, but whether it could spread faster.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

A vaccine that prevented tuberculosis would merit a Nobel Prize, but it's just very difficult to develop.

The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families.

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria.