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

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

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.

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.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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.

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