SARS Quotes
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New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
Margaret Chan -
Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.
Margaret Chan
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SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.
Margaret Chan -
One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.
Bill Clinton -
We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.
Margaret Chan -
SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!
Beth Torbert