Georges Benjamin Quotations

No one should fool anyone that this is going to happen overnight ... because the health system is so complex.

Nations are dealing with this on their own because of fears of an impact on trade. We continue to see situations where nations are not as aggressive as they could be off the bat.

This comparative information is extremely important because it is an indication that we as a nation have not achieved optimal health.

It's an illusory cost-shift. These people just don't have the money.

You don't have to get 100 percent compliance. As long as you get representative samples of all of the various groups, the bird surveillance serves as an early warning system for us.

This is concerning to all of us the health-care community and should be of equal concern to all Americans. We must find ways to reverse this negative trend.

I think the overall response was deplorable in terms of the timing and there's plenty of blame go around, but I think the overall public health response was heroic.

A lot of the problems occur when people think everything's back to normal when in fact it isn't.

The most frustrating thing to me is that FedEx can do that sort of detailed tracking of what it ships, but public health officials can't do the same thing with flu vaccine. The knowledge of where exactly vaccine is ought to be a public resource. We have a lot of work to do.

The genetic evolution we're observing is very worrisome. The threat is real. It's already a pandemic in birds.