Anthony Fauci

“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.”

“Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.”

“You can't rush the science, but when the science points you in the right direction, then you can start rushing.”

“Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate.”

“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.'”

“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.”

“Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.”

“I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.”

“Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.”

“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.”

“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.”

“It's very, very difficult when you have to prepare for something that might not ever happen.”

“Investigating rare diseases gives researchers more clues about how the healthy immune system functions.”

“The nature of a protective immune response to HIV is still unclear. Because in a very, very unique manner, unlike virtually any other microbe with which we're familiar, the HIV virus has evolved in a way that the immune system finds it very difficult, if not impossible, to deal with the virus.”

“The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.”

“I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'”

“Pneumococcal disease is a real threat. Pneumococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes anything from middle ear infection to pneumonia to meningitis. Children are particularly vulnerable to it, but adults can get pneumococcal disease themselves.”