19 Quotes by Georges Benjamin

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.

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

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

There's a wave here and we should ride it. It's a terrible tragedy that's potentially there, but we should use it as an opportunity to address what we believe are long-standing areas of neglect in rebuilding the public health infrastructure.

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

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.

In an era during which new and re-emerging diseases, such as the H5N1 avian flu virus, are potential public health threats, Americans should not forget to take the proper precautions to protect their health against the diseases that threaten us today.

This is mosquito country. There is the risk of explosive breeding of mosquitoes, as well as rats and rodents.

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.