Anthony Fauci

“A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.”

“Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.”

“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.”

“I'm a born, cautious optimist.”

“I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.”

“Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge.”

“There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.”

“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.”

“When you think in terms of public service, I heard so much about what Mother Theresa had done in her life. And I was fortunate enough to get a chance to meet her and talk to her a lot about what motivates her and what drives her. And that, to me, is a person that really is an extraordinary role model.”

“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.”

“The discovery of HIV in 1983 and the proof that it was the cause of AIDS in 1984 were the first major scientific breakthroughs that provided a specific target for blood-screening tests and opened the doorway to the development of antiretroviral medications.”

“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.”

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

“There are a number of candidate vaccines that are in development for HIV/AIDS.”

“The difference between H7N9 and H5N1, is that H5N1 kills chickens very rapidly, so it is easy to identify where the infected flocks of chickens are. H7N9 doesn't make the chicken sick, so it has been difficult to pinpoint where the infected chickens are.”

“Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.”

“We can sharply deflect the curve of HIV incidence.”

“Some of the most vulnerable people to getting the SARS virus are health care providers. The general public, walking in the street, there is really not that much risk at all. It's a very, very low risk - a very, very low risk.”

“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.”

“The most confounding thing of all is that we still haven't identified the cause of 20% to 30% of adult common colds.”