Infectious Outbreak Quotes

When [disease] can't be stopped, that's where we become lost.

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

I've never done a movie in that genre, and I love a lot of those movies. I watched the director's [David Freyne] short film [The First Wave], which I loved. And the script was just so good. He's found this way to tell a new story.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

Here's what's terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It's a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster.

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

If someone has Ebola at a cocktail party they're contagious and you can catch it from them.

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.