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An intranasal pandemic vaccine may help facilitate and expedite influenza vaccinations for more Americans in the event of a pandemic outbreak.

Europe is very well prepared but I hope there will not be a pandemic in the coming months.

Even if bird flu isn't the culprit, there almost certainly will be a disastrous pandemic of some sort in the next 20 years, ... And if we continue on our present course, the U.S. will not be prepared to handle it.

Flu is a virus that most people have no immunity or build-up to. It could spread worldwide and become a pandemic in 4 to 6 weeks.

It would be the first time in the history of mankind that a pandemic has been stamped out before it happened.

The situation is worsening with each passing month and the threat of an influenza pandemic is continuing to grow.

The speed of vaccine development will be particularly crucial when the next pandemic arrives.

The specter of pandemic influenza is very frightening to people, ... It does remind people of the importance of influenza as an illness ... and in the long run may result in people being motivated.

The threat of pandemic flu is an urgent health challenge,

The threat of an avian flu pandemic is already very real for companies with employees in Asia, but European employers need to be prepared too.

The term pandemic applies when there is a big, big animal reservoir of the virus and no underlying immunity, and those conditions exist today.

The things you would do to prepare for a pandemic are the things you can do for any emergency. The difference being that a hurricane, tornado or blizzard generally hits in a limited area for a limited time.

Sooner or later, there will be pandemic flu. Is it gonna be this one? Is it gonna be the next one? Is it gonna be the next one? No one can tell.

Right now these new cases in Turkey, they don't elevate the global risk assessment, so we're still in the same pandemic alert phase that we've been in for the last couple of years. But it's something that needs to be monitored very closely.

People confuse it with pandemic influenza, but they're very different diseases,

A flu pandemic is when it really gets widespread worldwide and that's what we're talking about- the type of influenza that would be easily transmitted between our population.

Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don't think we can wait around and not worry it won't start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to prepare.

The more it spreads in birds internationally, the more opportunities it has to interact with animal and human hosts, increasing the chances it could evolve into a human pandemic virus. No one knows if this will happen, or when, so it is critical to prepare for a potential human flu pandemic at the same time that we are working to prevent the spread of avian flu in birds.

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

The more effort we put at the beginning of the chain, the less likely it is that we're going to have use the tools that we are working on to prevent a pandemic and to treat one if it happens.

An influenza pandemic could be the greatest public health challenge of our time.

Are we adequately prepared? ... No. We do not yet have a vaccine ready to go. If the pandemic happened next week, the public would be outraged that we waited and ignored the concerns and now people in every neighborhood were dying.

A shared set of ethical values is the glue that can hold us together during an intense crisis. A key lesson from the SARS outbreak is that fairness becomes more important during a time of crisis and confusion. And the time to consider these questions and processes in relation to a threatened major pandemic is now.

Asia is still the weakest link in pandemic preparedness when compared with what is underway in Europe.

Avian and pandemic influenza are posing a greater challenge to the world than any previous emerging infectious diseases.

As other players have moved out of the vaccines business, it has become more interesting for others to go in. The manufacturers that are left gain a lot of pricing power, and interest has also risen in the face of pandemic risks.

A large proportion of the global population is in this region, and beyond that there is a diversity of animals that are thought to be important in the generation of these pandemic viruses.

A human influenza pandemic will be a big problem. But by working together we can respond effectively.

This is not the start of the pandemic. The start of the pandemic starts when there is human to human transfer, confirmed and sustained.

This is progress and an important step in pandemic vaccine development.

This agreement builds on Bristol-Myers' long-standing commitment to the global fight against AIDS. In Sub-Saharan Africa, where the HIV/AIDS pandemic has been especially devastating, we've taken a broad-based approach to addressing the AIDS crisis, including providing our AIDS medicines at no profit prices and committing to ensure our patents do not prevent inexpensive treatment in the region.

There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be severe, it could be extremely severe.

The novel 'World War Z' is told from the perspectives of so many people - speaking to the narrator - that there's no way a movie could capture all of them. Still, the idea of turning a zombie pandemic into a war story is fascinating and could have translated easily to film.

Strong surveillance and response networks for early detection of pandemic virus will make a difference.

It's inevitable that when the flu pandemic comes...it will have a very serious impact on the health of our country.

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or decreasing.

The world is not very well prepared, ... We think pandemic preparedness is really essential.

Once pandemic strains are widespread, it doesn't make any sense to impose travel restrictions. You simply can't contain the flu with travel restrictions.

It's reasonable to expect we will have an influenza pandemic again at some point. As far as when that might occur, that really is impossible to predict.

A pandemic is not imminent. A pandemic is expected at some point, but recognize it could be a completely different virus.

A pandemic historically lasts up to two years and comes in waves.

A pandemic by definition is everywhere. You can't expect Uncle Sam to come in and help. It won't be like a hurricane. Every community will have to fend for themselves. There is no cavalry.

I hope we are not creating a sense of panic... because we need the public's trust to encourage governments to begin or continue pandemic preparedness efforts.

Information is probably the most important thing we can do -- sharing information, communicating with citizens, businesses, health care industry -- so that everybody can think about what they need to do, what is their part in surviving a pandemic situation.

In California alone, scientists estimate a pandemic could cause approximately 35 percent of the population to become ill.

If necessary, even before a pandemic, we'll start making fresh vaccine strains. We will be following it along, and hopefully be keeping up with it. If, when a pandemic strikes and it is H5, we'll pounce on that virus immediately.

In public health, we've talked about a pandemic flu for years and years and years. We know it's coming. We know from history and the study of viruses that it is going to happen again.

I probably have as many meetings about pandemic influenza as I've ever had on anything else in emergency management.

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

In 1918, it was 20- and 30-year-olds, but we won't know which group is being affected until a pandemic is actually under way.

By the time we leave here, we must all have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to enable us to contain a virus with pandemic potential.

Before this study, estimates were all over the map on the transmissibility of pandemic flu,

Childhood obesity is a huge systemic problem. It's a pandemic to a certain extent.

Buying time will allow us to fast-track pandemic vaccine production. It will allow governments to put in place a host of emergency public health measures that will reduce mortality and morbidity, and social and economic disruption.

By definition, a pandemic means you are on your own.

However, we are looking at a wide range of contingencies, potentially involving Title 10 forces (federal troops) if a pandemic outbreak of a biological threat were to occur,

How might another influenza pandemic affect the market?

Health officials feel that a pandemic flu is likely to occur and no one's calling the avian flu the next pandemic, but we know that, sooner or later, something is going to happen. So, we need to be prepared.

For the first time in human history, we have a chance to prepare ourselves for a pandemic before it arrives, ... It is incumbent upon the global community to act now.

You can't fight the greatest pandemic for years without resources,

Along with the overreaching department plan, each combatant commander must have a plan in place to address pandemic influenza, a potentially very infectious disease. Some people may be sick for a while, and the commanders have to project how this could affect their ability to perform the mission.

The idea is simple. The fear is that the bird virus will re-assort with a human virus and generate a pandemic human flu. If you vaccinate against human influenza, they can't catch it, so you won't get re-assortment.

The Health Ministry has prepared a 'National Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan'. This is an international requirement for any country affected by bird flu,

The goals of the pandemic influenza plan are to identify local city organizations, operational concepts, responsibilities and procedures to accomplish a coordinated public health and medical services response to a pandemic event.

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

the first dramatic signal from the U.S. administration that it is now ready to confront the pandemic and to save or prolong millions of lives.

And if avian flu develops into a pandemic human strain - as many experts fear it may - the vaccine might complement traditional vaccines and be used to protect people.

The meeting will continue development of an operational guide for WHO and international public health authorities to use in an attempt to extinguish a pandemic in its initial stages.

The looming threat of a global influenza pandemic demands global, regional and national attention, and preparation and response to a pandemic is a shared responsibility.

But all the Administration released was a glossy brochure and a plan for a single agency, the Department of Health and Human Services, and even that was missing its most important element, the actual operational plans for responding to a pandemic epidemic,

long-awaited first step toward a comprehensive pandemic flu plan that America needs and deserves.

It is very important to recognize that the money that we spend now will not be wasted even if this particular strain of the virus, H5N1, ends up not becoming a pandemic flu, ... We know that over the next two, three decades there will be a pandemic flu. That's almost certain.