33 Quotes by Michael Osterholm

We believe the avian situation we currently have in Southeast Asia is a perfect set-up for this virus to mutate into a human-to-human transmitted agent, which is a big problem and could lead this to be the next pandemic, ... We also have to keep an eye on other viruses.

There clearly have been ongoing changes in the virus itself, and what that means in terms of its adapting to different bird species or its ability to infect other bird species is unclear, but it may have played a role.

We will have enough vaccine in about a year for 1 billion doses.

The good news is we can make a vaccine. The bad news, it's not going to prevent a pandemic in the next 12 to 18 months.

While the numbers in the study are very small, the resistance and clinical failures here are very important. Resistance could mean the difference between surviving and not surviving.

What we are really attempting to do here is make sure you have antibody defense after you stop the antibiotics, ... Should one of those dormant spores come around, we can then take care of it.

What happens in China is of real concern to us. Most of us have been quite surprised that there has not been some evidence of human disease in China and we always worry if that is a function of transparency or the cases just aren't there. We just don't know. And the doubts are troubling.

Don't emphasize what you can buy, emphasize what you can get your hands on. If it happens tonight, how do you deal with order?

Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.