infectious diseases quotes

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there’s only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm.

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.