Seth Berkley Quotes

There exist thousands of Americans who have AIDS-defining diseases but are HIV negative.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

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

I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

You can't be involved in healthcare without being involved in the battle against AIDS.

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

It's pretty impossible to be a South African and not have been personally affected by HIV or AIDS.

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

The mystery of that damn virus has been generated by the $2 billion a year they spend on it.

I think we should put the same weight now on the co-factors as we have on HIV.

I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.