Swine Flu Quotes

• I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.

  Michele Bachmann

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

  "Michele Bachmann wrong that swine flu broke out under Carter" by Bill Adair, www.politifact.com. April 30, 2009.

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• With 30,000 deaths and 200,000 hospitalizations from the seasonal flu, those numbers are certainly higher than what we've seen of the swine flu. Protecting yourself from both viruses is very important.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Numbers, Important, Viruses

  "Kristi Yamaguchi, Olympic Ice Skater, Pushes Seasonal Flu Shots" by Amanda Gardner, abcnews.go.com. August 29, 2009.

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• I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.

  Bill Burr

  Needs, Flu, Want

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• When I was diagnosed with swine flu, it was a big relief that Young Saeng was with me. When everyone wouldn't eat with me, Young Saeng was the only one who ate stuff like curry with me.

  Kim Hyun-joong

  Relief, Flu, Stuff

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• I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Epidemics, Bird, Flu

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Get Well, Organization, World

  "'Obama Is Average'". Interview with Klaus Brinkbäumer and Gregor-Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. October 26, 2009.

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• Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

  Max Brooks

  Thinking, Iraq, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I am so pro-swine flu it's - it's like ridiculous.

  Bill Burr

  Flu, Ridiculous, Swine

  "Bill Burr: Let It Go". TV Special, www.imdb.com. September 18, 2010.

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• Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.

  Phil Gingrey

  Ebola, Migrants, Viruses

  "GOP congressman: Ebola could spread across the border". www.msnbc.com. July 15, 2014.

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• Now we are intimately locked together. You get swine flu in Mexico; it’s a problem for Charles de Gaulle Airport 24 hours later. Lehman Brothers goes down; the whole lot collapses. There are fires in the steppes of Russia; food riots in Africa.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Brother, Fire, Airports

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• We're famous" iggy whispered so low that Fang could barely hear him. "So's Swine Flu" Fang whispered back.

  James Patterson

  Flu, Lows, Swine

  James Patterson (2007). “Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports: A Maximum Ride Novel”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• I can't understand why the front pages of newspapers can cover bird flu and swine flu and everybody is up in arms about that and we still haven't really woken up to the fact that so many women in sub-Saharan Africa - 60 percent of people in - infected with HIV are women.

  Annie Lennox

  People, Bird, Hiv

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