Anthony Fauci Quotes

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

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

Contagious and infectious diseases have been largely overcome.

Avian flu, which has already killed 50 people, is only a mutation away from being transmissible from person to person. We have no immunity, no vaccines, and no cure. It is imperative that we strengthen our domestic vaccine supply, expand legal protections, encourage collaboration between the public and private sectors, and advance research and development. These initiatives will help protect us from a deadly viral outbreak that experts warn could come to our shores any day.

It’s not the mosquitoes who spread the disease [Zika]. Mosquitoes don’t travel more than 500 yards from where they are born. It’s the people. They travel.

I've had to confront a lot of pandemics and infectious diseases around the globe.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

Science is beginning to catch up with global health problems.

There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera.

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.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

You better have your disease program in line. The bugs are evolving quicker than our anti-biotics.

People don’t take it [the Zika Virus] seriously…. They haven’t seen any babies with microcephaly, YET!

As demonstrated by the emergence of the Mexican swine flu in the U.S., infectious diseases have little respect for borders; helping developing countries detect and deal with their diseases is the surest way for us to protect ourselves from new and potentially devastating epidemics.

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

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

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

AIDS win be our first priority, but in two years' time we don't know where AIDS research will stand, so we are also thinking of activity on other diseases.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

As medical research continues and technology enables new breakthroughs, there will be a day when malaria and most all major deadly diseases are eradicated on Earth.

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

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.