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

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

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

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

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.

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.