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1. "Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases." ~ Margaret Chan
2. "A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate impact. By the same token, even the best-stocked delivery system will have an inadequate impact if it fails to reach the poor." ~ Margaret Chan
3. "This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries, to the pharmaceutical industry and the business community that certain actions now should be undertaken with increased urgency and at an accelerated pace." ~ Margaret Chan
4. "HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem." ~ Margaret Chan
5. "Mexico is a safe, as well as a beautiful and warmly gracious, place to visit." ~ Margaret Chan
6. "The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation." ~ Margaret Chan
7. "At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people, to become the next global crisis." ~ Margaret Chan
8. "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
9. "After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic." ~ Margaret Chan
10. "Pandemic influenza is by nature an international issue; it requires an international solution." ~ Margaret Chan
11. "The WHO is the lead agency in health in the United Nations system, and clearly we have very important functions to play." ~ Margaret Chan
12. "Tobacco is the only industry that produces products to make huge profits and at the same time damage the health and kill their consumers." ~ Margaret Chan
13. "We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now." ~ Margaret Chan
14. "What amazes me most is that the media and I have fostered a close relationship." ~ Margaret Chan
15. "All experts on WHO advisory groups for developing norms, standards and guidelines are required to disclose interests regarding the advisory committee's area of work. If a declared interest is potentially significant, then the expert is either excluded from the meeting or given a restricted role." ~ Margaret Chan
16. "When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence." ~ Margaret Chan
17. "All countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans. Countries should remain on high alert for unusual outbreaks of influenza-like illness and severe pneumonia." ~ Margaret Chan
18. "Antimicrobial resistance is on the rise in Europe and elsewhere in the world. We are losing our first-line antimicrobials. Replacement treatments are more costly, more toxic, need much longer durations of treatment, and may require treatment in intensive care units." ~ Margaret Chan
19. "Based on assessment of all available information and following several expert consultations, I have decided to raise the current level of influenza pandemic alert from phase 4 to phase 5." ~ Margaret Chan
20. "For a pandemic of moderate severity, this is one of our greatest challenges: helping people to understand when they do not need to worry, and when they do need to seek urgent care." ~ Margaret Chan

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