Anthony S. Fauci
We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.Collection: Ebola
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.Collection: Thinking
I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.Collection: Believe
You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.Collection: Helping
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.Collection: Humble
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.Collection: Ebola
When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.Collection: Viruses
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.Collection: Cancer
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.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Children
We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates.Collection: Grateful
You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.Collection: Country
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Scientist
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.Collection: Country
The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.Collection: Body
The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not.Collection: Basketball
I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.Collection: Running
Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.Collection: Disease
Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.Collection: Skins