"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."

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"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."

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"All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia."

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"Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5."

Information

"This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace."

Business

"The international community should treat this as a window of opportunity to ramp up preparedness and response."

Opportunity

"For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation and unpredictable behaviour."

History

"After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic."

Humanity

"Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously, precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world."

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"Those who own the country ought to govern it."

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"I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days."

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"If presidents can't do it to their wives, they do it to their country."

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"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone."

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"The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How is the president?""

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"It's a free country and I can keep my mouth shut whenever I want."

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"I've got a great place, it's a country house."

Lita Ford, American Musician

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"Tyrone, I think they're taking to festivals. I don't know which festivals it will be at. It's like a buddy picture. It's a couple of guys driving across the country and they get to a small town and they hit a guy. The guy turns out to be a drug smuggler."

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"'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country."

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