David Nabarro Quotes

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The Ebola epidemic is the worst health emergency there has been in modern times.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

We must remember that coronavirus is a new disease, which presents new challenges.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

We've all learned about this disease since it was first discovered several years ago in Europe. And so I think we've learned from the European experience.

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Africa needs more funding to continue to fight all of those diseases. We are losing more than 1.3 million young children under the age of five every year because of malaria. We've already lost 25 million people to the pandemic of HIV-AIDS. More people are dying now from typhoid fever. Diabetes is on the rise.

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

Global pandemics---whether naturally occurring or intentionally spread---pose a greater threat than most man-made weapons of mass destruction.

Infectious diseases ... have probably been the most dangerous of enemies of mankind, much more so than war and mass murder. When one studies the constant epidemics of the past and the deficiency diseases on land and at sea, one realizes that the whole of civilization could have succumbed, and one is constantly surprised that mankind has survived.

If any [news]paper should print in gigantic type, "The cholera has come," I believe half its readers would be in collapse before tea time.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

Smallpox is the only human infectious disease ever eradicated by science.

Influenza killed more people in September, October, and November of 1918 than AIDS killed in all the years since it entered the human population.

There is a cost for investing in pandemic preparedness, but a much bigger cost for not investing in it.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

Sickness and disease will be a part of life of this planet until Jesus comes back.

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.