Anthony Fauci Quotes
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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.
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That doesn't mean that we're not going to do everything we can to make things that have even a hint of efficacy more readily available.
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It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.
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Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.
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Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.
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There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
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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.
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Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
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Knowledge goes hand-in-hand with truth - something I learned with a bit of tough love from my Jesuit education first at Regis High School in New York City and then at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Mass.
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There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
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Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.
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You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'
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The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
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The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.
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Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
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When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
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Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
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I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.
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I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.
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I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us back to the 14th century. That would be looking over a ledge that isn't there.
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Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.
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Bio-terrorism is a threat.