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Human nature is weak.
I'm a born, cautious optimist.
Activism has been very productive in our society.
We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.
The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.
There are so many different varieties of HIV out there.
Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.
I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.
There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.
I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.
There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.
Testing two vaccines against different H1N1s at the same time has never been done.
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.
It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.
There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.
Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.
Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.
We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.
Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.
The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.
You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.
The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.
The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.
Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.
I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.
I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.
When we can get the incidence of HIV down enough to turn the trajectory of the pandemic, it will assume a momentum of its own in diminishing HIV.
When you're dealing with a very sick person and you're doing something to them, an intervention, be it a procedure or a medication, safety is critical.
There's more than one way to get to the goal that you want to get to, but once you compromise your own principles, then you're lost. You're really lost.
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.
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.
The Europeans have lots of data on the use of adjuvanted flu vaccine in the elderly, but I don't think anybody has really good data on adjuvants in children.
I think, collectively, we should be paying more attention to what is going on around us in the world among people who don't have the advantages that we have.
It's extremely likely that the people who have never been exposed to a human who has leprosy, it's very likely they got leprosy from exposure to an armadillo.
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.
Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.
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.
It is now widely recognized that any attempt at malaria eradication must be a long-term commitment that involves multiple interventions, disciplines, strategies and organizations.
The immune system's 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.
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.
The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about.
For the first time, we have the genetic sequences of all three of the players in the global malaria debacle: the parasite, the anopheles mosquito and the human. It's a very important milestone.
I think it would be over-exaggeration to think that there are millions of viruses ready to jump on us and bring us back to the 14th century. That would be looking over a ledge that isn't there.
There is an urgent need for a protective Ebola vaccine, and it is important to establish that a vaccine is safe and spurs the immune system to react in a way necessary to protect against infection.