Quotes by Anthony Fauci

“Its going to be difficult to predict whether or not [the hurricane] is going to have an impact on West Nile,”

“Luckily, those two factors will neutralize each other.”

“Would it be the best thing that we spend money to have a vaccine for pandemic flu that never happened? ... That would be a great outcome as far as Im concerned.”

“The ultimate expense for any given country naturally would be considerably less than if you had to have a regimen in which you gave the drug every day,”

“It selects the virus to try and escape from the drugs by becoming resistant. Thats a natural thing that any microbe does when you treat it.”

“Its been over 30 years since weve had a pandemic, so inevitably we are going to have a pandemic within a reasonable period of time.”

“The older you get, the greater the probability that you would not only have serious complications, but you would actually die,”

“We can never be totally 100 percent prepared. But were making extraordinary progress over the past year.”

“There is the possibility, if not likelihood, that we would not yet be finished with this, even with the cases no longer spread in this season or at this particular time, ... So we must be prepared for serious consequences in future years.”

“a sobering finding ... it tells us you still have to worry about this, but you have to worry about something else too, because somehow, somewhere, the virus is coming from a place that we havent yet identified.”

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

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 wouldnt last for a few days, like a cold.

Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they dont, thats it. Thats not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case.

I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think thats a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine.

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

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.

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

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 youre caring about.