David Heymann Quotations

There are some feelings that possibly live game markets might have been associated with some of the earlier cases, but this is only hypothesis.

We still maintain that travel is not to be interrupted in the world at this point of time.

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue. That virus, just as it came here from the African continent, could now go from here to a neighboring country and become implanted in that country if protection rates for polio were low.

Polio is not only an issue in Indonesia ... but it's an international issue.

We believe the outbreak has come to a peak in these areas because of information that ministries of health have given us.

Today, one of the most important means of spreading diseases around the globe is air travel.

We are seeing that we are beginning to tighten in on the disease. ... Eventually, we hope that it can be contained throughout the world and not become an epidemic or an endemic disease.

The governments (in Canada, Vietnam, Singapore, and Hong Kong) have reported cases, and we see in each of these areas, the case reports are decreasing and becoming more stable so we believe the epidemic may have peaked there.

The risk now is Nigeria - and losing the commitment in other countries. But we're confident now that Nigeria will get the job done.

So that brings us to two countries that have interrupted transmission as the outbreak containment continues.

The new approach is a more rapid approach because polio is considered a public health emergency of international importance. In an interconnected world, these viruses travel easily and don't respect international borders.

Hollywood was a silver-nitrate finishing school for a whole generation with a faculty that included Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, John Gilbert, Pola Negri, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin and Rudolf Valentino.

Hong Kong, with its dense population and fluid border with China, had one of the hardest outbreaks to control.

I can't tell you that we can't make the target. We won't be able to say until August, when the high-transmission season resumes. Then we'll know how many countries still have polio.