A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us.
Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution.
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic upheaval since the Industrial Revolution, which has set off a pandemic of retrogressive nationalism, regional separatism, and religious extremism.
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential to devastate us.
All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia.
If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.
There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour.
That makes climate change a bigger public health problem than AIDS, than malaria, than pandemic flu.
If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic,.