Anthony Fauci
Anthony Fauci
Anthony Stephen "Tony" Fauciis an American immunologist who has made substantial contributions to HIV/AIDS research and other immunodeficiencies, both as a scientist and as the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth24 December 1940
CountryUnited States of America
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We as public health officials ... must assume the worst-case scenario and H5N1 is now giving us a lot of signs that is becoming a little more worrisome, if not a lot a more worrisome, because of the events that are going on,
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The AIDS epidemic is one of the greatest challenges to our society today. It is a fight that we cannot afford to lose.
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It's a virus that's easily transmitted from person to person through aerosolized droplets from saliva and other body fluids, ... It is unlike anthrax in that it can be transmitted from person to person and not just a danger by a direct contact.
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It's a bit of muted good news, in that we're going in the right direction, but the sobering news is we have a long way to go.
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What we learned from the mail-service anthrax attack of 2001 is that you really have to look at the vulnerable people along the chain of exposure.
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That's why we are preparing so intensely for H5N1 as well as any other pandemic,
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The models show that if you combine well-directed, targeted treatment with some social interventions like closing schools, ideally together with some vaccination, it's conceivable you'd be able to stop the epidemic.
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This disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS makes it imperative to increase awareness and mobilize Black communities to get involved in the struggle against this disease.
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The older you get, the greater the probability that you would not only have serious complications, but you would actually die,
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It is an ingenious mechanism that the virus uses by having this big burst of expansion and the cells respond,
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Historically, a live vaccine induces more potent, lasting and broader immune responses than a killed vaccine. The body is seeing the microbe in a way that is much more analogous to a real infection.
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(HIV) is a retrovirus, and one that has the capability of inserting itself into a gene -- into the genes of our own cell and hiding there essentially indefinitely, so it shields itself from the surveillance of the body's immune system,
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Science is telling us that we can do phenomenal things if we put our minds and our resources to it.
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A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.