This morning's quotable quotes

John McDermott at the opening:
The challenges we are attempting to address - like enhancing the health of people, animals and environments - all at the same time - these challenges are so grand that no one community dares take responsibility for them!

Keith Jones on setting the stage:
We're inviting participants to open "the zone" the
Interdisciplinary
Collaborative
Opportunity
Zone
or ICOZ for short!

Mark Smolinski on setting the scene:
google.org brings an information and technology lens to this area. We think technology can make a difference. 75% of new human diseases are zoonotic. Some are interested in the climate-human-animal health interface. Can we predict and prevent the next epidemic? We think it's a matter of not only what we know but what we should know and what we could know.

We want to get two steps ahead of the disease curve. We need to know where to look. We need to better identify hotspots. We need to integrate data sets to spur new research. And we need to use new technology. Can we, for example, somehow automate analyses of rumours of disease to stop outbreaks more quickly?

Onesmo ole-MoiYoi asks:
Why should Africa continue to use DDT when the rest of the world is not using it?