Anthony Fauci Quotes

Anthony Fauci

Profession : Scientist

Birth : December 24, 1940

Disagreements are one of the fundamental positive aspects of science.

Anthony Fauci

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

Anthony Fauci

Bio-terrorism is a threat.

Anthony Fauci

Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, especially in certain countries in Africa.

Anthony Fauci

Activism has been very productive in our society.

Anthony Fauci

It's the advantage of the virus to spread, and you can only spread when you infect people and they infect other people without necessarily killing them. So if you had 100 percent mortality, the potential pandemic would almost self-eliminate itself.

Anthony Fauci

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.

Anthony Fauci

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

Anthony Fauci

The world is a place that is so interconnected that what happens in another part of the world will impact us.

Anthony Fauci

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.

Anthony Fauci

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

Anthony Fauci

You might be asking too much if you're looking for one vaccine for every conceivable influenza. If you have one or two that cover the vast majority of isolates, I wouldn't be ashamed to call that a 'universal vaccine.'

Anthony Fauci

I'm a born, cautious optimist.

Anthony Fauci

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.

Anthony Fauci

When you vaccinate someone, or when you get infected, the microbe is presenting itself to the immune system in a way that the immune system recognizes the important elements of the microbe and makes an immune response, both an antibody response and a cellular response, to ultimately contain the microbe.

Anthony Fauci

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.

Anthony Fauci

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.

Anthony Fauci

Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

Anthony Fauci

An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.

Anthony Fauci

There's always going to be the need for new medications, better medications.

Anthony Fauci