Anthony Fauci Quotes

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

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

Global pandemics---whether naturally occurring or intentionally spread---pose a greater threat than most man-made weapons of mass destruction.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

I really love nature. I grew up in the country. But one of the things about nature is that it is beautiful but it's also very dangerous.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

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

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic.

As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.

AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.

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.

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.

Pandemics happen. When they do, they change the world.

It entered Egypt at the end of the season when the grasslands turn green, hence in the autumn of the year 748…This epidemic was distinctive in that it did not particularly affect one region and leave another untouched but spread to all parts of the Earth, in the East as in the West…Furthermore, it encompassed not just the human species but also the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and the animals in the field…

All infections, of whatever type, with no exceptions, are products of parasitic beings; that is, by living organisms that enter in other living organisms, in which they find nourishment, that is, food that suits them, here they hatch, grow and reproduce themselves.

With infectious disease, without vaccines, there's no safety in numbers.

Humankind is no stranger to calamitous outbreaks of diseases.

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak.

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

This [climate change] is potentially so dangerous that we have to act strongly. Do we want to play Russian roulette with two bullets or one?

Terrorists and murderers are so dangerous. We shouldn't fall victim to believe that they are immune.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.