Nate Mendel Quotes

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

If Carter had been there when the AIDS crisis came up, it would have been a whole different story. It could have been treated like a legitimate disease.

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

Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows.

Watching AIDS play its evil game of give and take has made me understand why lobbying for increased research funding should be an urgent priority - not only for the gay community but for us all.

There's certain things that people hold as truth but that are not always necessarily true.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.

The Ebola virus is unlike any health crisis we have ever experienced and needs a response unlike anything we have ever seen.

Medical researchers don't know much about head lice because they don't much care. The reason that they don't much care is, paradoxically, that they know a lot. That is, they know one important thing: there is no evidence that head lice transmit disease.

We don't know what we don't know about Ebola. We think we know it's a virus, but is it mutating? Can it be spread by airborne?

China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.

AIDS is a very, very, very vicious disease, particularly in the black community.

The 'Celeb Juice' job was never mine - people just guessed - but it was quite funny to watch the rumours.

Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another.

People often confuse visibility with a lot of other things. Sometimes I become a proxy for things that just aren't true about me. People will say, 'DeRay got millions of dollars in grants.' That's just not true... I'm broke.

Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.

My professional background has prepared me for a moment like this - to confront and defeat a deadly virus that threatens Americans and people around the globe.

Too many people have already lost their lives to HIV and AIDS, and the more celebrities who can bring attention to the issue, the better.

World Aids Day is both a day of remembrance and a day of hope.

We grew up in an era where there was a lot of fear of HIV. Everybody worried about it and everybody took precautions, and everybody knew that it was a thing that was out there. As it slowed down, it left the spotlight, people forgot.

In spite of the tireless efforts of our scientist, it is possible that we may never find a successful coronavirus vaccine.

There are so many myths about us.

If you didn't talk to me to write something, you're just making stuff up. You're going by what you think, what you're assuming. I leave it at that. Read it. Believe what you want. But at the end of the day, if you've got a real question, then just come up and ask me, and see who I am as a person.