14 Quotes by David Heymann

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.