Avian Influenza Quotes

#1. The emergence and spread of virulent strains of avian influenza has been attributed by experts to the intensely overcrowded, unsanitary, and stressful conditions that often characterize large-scale factory farming in industrialized agriculture.

Michael Greger

#2. In nature, disease-causing strains of avian influenza rarely spread far because the birds sicken and die before they can fly to spread it to others.

Michael Greger

#3. The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.

John Clifford

#4. Rising demand for animal products highlights microbiological risks, with animal-welfare measures sometimes creating new hazards. For example, open pens for poultry may increase the spread of communicable diseases like avian influenza.

Louise Fresco

#5. What is important to me is there has been consensus and clarity, (and) much better coordination. We'll be much quicker to control avian influenza as a result.

David Nabarro

#6. A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.

Isaac Asimov

#7. Satan does some of his worst work on exhausted Christians when nerves are frayed and the mind is faint.

Vance Havner

#8. I'm very into the first production of the show.

Beth Henley

#9. It just always seems it goes that the one you can't have is the one you want.

Lanie Kincaid

#10. Violence is sometimes a duty.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#11. The influenza pandemic of 1918 may well be the greatest scourge ever to afflict humanity, exacting a death toll greater than all the wars of the 20th Century combined. The virus that wreaked this havoc apparently developed in birds, and then jumped to people. In other words, it was avian flu.

David L. Katz

#12. A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#13. For many years, the proposed influenza epicenter has been thought to be Southeast Asia. Farming practices there bring pigs, fowl, and people into close contact, allowing swine, avian, and human flu viruses to mix. The cycle is thought to be birds to pigs to humans.

Elizabeth T. Murane