Ebola quotes

Ebola

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"This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries, in cities and very fast."

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Bill Gates Business Magnate, Philanthropist
Ebola

"The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic."

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Paul Allen Businessman, Philanthropist
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"I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic."

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Diana DeGette Politician
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"While we won't be able to help the 10,000 people who died in last year's [Ebola] outbreak, we can do something to save untold numbers of lives in the future if NIH is working at full strength."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Among the top Google searches of 2014 were Ebola and the movie 'Frozen.' One leaves you with something highly infectious that's impossible to get out of your system. The other is Ebola."

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Conan O'Brien Television Host, Comedian
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"Time magazine announced its person of the year. It's health workers who treat Ebola. That's a person of the year. Time magazine told the health workers, 'No need to pick up your award, we'll mail it to you.'"

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Shepard Smith Journalist
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"We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two health care workers who contracted the disease from a dying man. They are isolated. There is no information to suggest that the virus has spread to anyone in the general population in America. Not one person in the general population in the United States."

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