Anthony S. Fauci famous quotes

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

#Impact #World

You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Helping

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

#Viruses #Levels #Difficult

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Children #Vaccines #Remember

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Believe #Responsibility #Impact

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

#Ebola #Today #Way

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

#Mind #Resources #Phenomenal

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Impact #Epidemics #Vaccines

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

#Country #Effort #Political

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Responsibility #Drug #Trials

Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Giving #Healthy #Rare Diseases

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

#Running #Disease #Hiv

I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Communication #Thinking #Needs

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

#Support #Research #Administration

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

#Way #Treats #Infection

Activism has been very productive in our society.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Our Society #Activism #Productive

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Mean #Pandemics #World

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,
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Grateful #Ebola #Two

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Basketball #Blood #Decision

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Humble #Anxiety #Feelings

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Ebola #Outbreaks #Feels

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Ebola #People #Facts

Im generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Disease #Conservative #Predictions

Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Skins #Reason #Infection

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Numbers #Number 2 #Hepatitis

The launch of phase 1 Ebola vaccine studies is a first step in developing a vaccine that could be licensed and used in the field to protect not only the front line health care workers but also those living in areas where Ebola virus exists.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Vaccines #Ebola #Fields

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Cancer #Goal #Different

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Children #Thinking #Elderly

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Thinking #People #Attention

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

#Country #Children #Couple

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Be Good

We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Curves #Hiv

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Bios #Terrorist #Worst

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.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Country #Epidemics #Levels

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

#Body #Host #Immune System

Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.
-- Anthony S. Fauci

#Vaccines #Two #Different

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

#Believe #Sweat #Excellence