Albert Osterhaus Pandemic Quotations

In these countries, the risk of a pandemic virus emerging is much higher than it is in Western Europe.

Failure to act now... will leave us empty handed when a pandemic strikes and will cause needless deaths,

There is a real threat, and I think the situation we are facing today is quite alarming. We really fear that this particular virus might be at the basis of the first pandemic outbreak of influenza in the 21st century.