"1918 has gone: a year momentous at the termination of the most cruel war in the annals of the human race; a year which marked the end, at least for a time, of man's destruction of man; unfortunately a year in which developed the most fatal infectious disease causing the death of hundreds of thousands of human beings."

-The Journal of the American Medical Association,

December 28, 1918 issue

"You would be a fool to predict what the virus is going to do next. I'm equally prepared for this thing to disappear as I am to hear one day when I walk into the office, 'Oh, did you hear? There's another 10 cases-or 100 cases.' "

-Dr. Keiji Fukuda, chief epidemiologist,

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-Influenza Section,

quoted by TIME, February 28, 1998

"It is very important to include flu vaccination in the immunization program for kids. Even though flu is supposed to be a self-limiting disease, the complications are sometimes fatal."

-Dr. Lily Lao, Pulmonologist, Lung Center of the Philippines

"Immunization, proper diet, exercise, nicotine-free lifestyle all contribute to proper pulmonary care [and] may shield you from suffering from debilitating complications that may arise from getting infected with flu."

-Dr. Ma. Consuelo Mison-Obillo,

President, Philippine College of Chest Physicians

"Poor health and poverty breed each other."

-Dr. Veronica Chan, Head,

World Health Organization-National Collaboration Center for Influenza