David Nabarro Pandemic Quotations

Act as though a pandemic influenza will start tomorrow. Don't think we can wait around and not worry it won't start for six months or one year. Once, it starts it is too late to prepare.

The more I find out about an influenza pandemic and the lack of readiness, the more I am concerned. But I am more hopeful about the scope for international cooperation.

It simply is telling us that the virus may be changing the way it interacts with humans. It does not tell us that the risk of a mutation that causes the pandemic is increasing or decreasing.

We expect the next influenza pandemic to come at any time now.

We cannot have a vaccine against a pandemic virus until the pandemic virus appears.

There will be an influenza pandemic sometime, but we don't know when. It could be mild, it could be severe, it could be extremely severe.