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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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