Michael Osterholm
Michael Osterholm
Michael T. Osterholm, Ph.D., M.P.H., is a prominent public health scientist and a nationally recognized biosecurity expert in the United States. Osterholm is the director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policyat the University of Minnesota, a professor in the School of Public Health, and an adjunct professor in the University of Minnesota Medical School...
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To be able to move smallpox simply means to have a device within a writing ink pen that could very easily pass any customs officer, could easily pass through a metal detector, and you could have enough smallpox in there to start the world's worst epidemic.
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I don't think Maurice really believed this, ... Maurice was always provocative.
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Charles Darwin could not have set up a better genetic re-assortment laboratory if he tried.
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Clearly this is the No. 1 public health issue on the radar screen.
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In a pandemic, it's not clear what they would eat, or where they would eat. People may take in less calories, but they've still got to eat.
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In 1918, even among the very young and the very old, there was a ten-fold increase in deaths, ... There was a 1,000-fold increase in young adults.
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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.
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Anyone could experience this very severe, life-threatening illness,
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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?
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It's the perfect setup. Then you put air travel in and it could be around the world overnight.
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It may well be of great benefit to people who can get it while they're ill.
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That means that very, very limited supply is going to become a lot more limited.
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That is like trying to fill Lake Superior with a garden hose. That's just a start.
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Farmers need to understand that their livelihood is at risk just because of what this would do to the world economy.