31 Quotes by Laurie Garrett

Measures we can take to handle pandemic flu if it emerges in the next six months are limited and bleak, but wise investments and strong science could well bolster the public health armamentarium considerably over the next five years.

Right now in human beings, it kills 55 percent of the people it infects. That makes it the most lethal flu we know of that has ever been on planet Earth affecting human beings.

Only communist China could take away civil liberties and get away with it.

We can see hazards approaching and we have time to actually do something.

What we're watching in real time is evolution. And it's a biological process, and it is, by definition, unpredictable.

What killed people during the outbreak in 1918 was not a weak immune system. An over-response from their own immune system known at ARDS killed them. They drowned in their own fluid.

Breeding birds pass their harmless strains to each other and the virus mutates.

Fear's a bad way to be motivated, but a realistic sense of risk is a rational approach.

People are trying to do the right thing, but nobody knows what the right thing is. Every country feels like they have to do something, and so they order a quick technological fix.