Quotes by Anthony Fauci

Bio-terrorism is a threat.

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.

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.'

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

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.

I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.

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.

Human nature is weak.

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

What this paper shows is you can make a vaccine against bird flu. It also points out a lot of weaknesses in the system. It's an important wake-up call.