Anthony S. Fauci Quotes

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.

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

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.

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.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

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.

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.

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

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.

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.

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

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

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

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

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

It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people.

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

Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.

Activism has been very productive in our society.

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

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

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

Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

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.

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.

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

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.

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.

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

When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.

When a company is fairly certain of a profit margin that is substantial, it can assume responsibility for the clinical trials to develop a blockbuster drug.