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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.