Anthony S. Fauci Quotes

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I dont think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the state health authorities. ... you get people, you identify them, and you observe and monitor them daily to determine if they develop symptoms If they do, then you put them under isolation to determine if, in fact, they are infected. And if you do that properly, you can shut down any outbreak.

Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that in that smoke would irritate the skin or even irritate the lungs. So, for the most time, it could be either just a little bit of a nuisance irritant, or if you get a really big whiff of it, particularly people who have, for example, reversible airways disease, like asthma or different types of hypersensitivity diseases, you could get a serious problem.

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevention and treatment in a way that if you fast-forward 30 years form '88 to now, we can say without hyperbole that we have the tools, if implemented the way they could be implemented, to theoretically, essentially end the epidemic as we know it now.

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.

I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.

One of the by-products of being a perfectionist and constantly trying to improve myself are sobering feelings of low-grade anxiety and a nagging sense of inadequacy This anxiety keeps me humble.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who dont have the advantages that we have.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.

There has been treatment for hepatitis C, but the treatment has not been overwhelmingly effective, number 1. And number 2, it has had considerable toxicity.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well.

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold and we call that an epidemic threshold.

Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different types of neoplastic transformation.

When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.