Occupation: Immunologist Birth: December 24, 1940
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 ….
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 coug….
The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that sho….
The immune systems goal is to protect the body against invaders either from without, such as microbes, or from within, such as cancers and different ….
Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil..
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 wh….
We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the CDC and by the s….
I run a modest-sized laboratory thats looking specifically at what we call the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS..
Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed..
Certainly the support for research in HIV/AIDS was good in the Clinton administration, good in the Bush administrations. It just was..
You help someone's health, and you prevent them from infecting others..
Previous efforts to eradicate malaria failed for several reasons, including political instability and technical challenges in delivering resources, e….
The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself..
What has happened over the years is that scientists have now developed AIDS therapeutic capabilities, as well as prevention, and we've linked prevent….
A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world..
I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate..
You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up..
Exposures, if they are mild, in the sense of barely just a small concentration, it's mostly an irritant, particularly the peroxides, that in that smo….
It is an indescribable experience knowing that what you are doing will have an impact on the lives... of millions of people..
The bodys immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host..
I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society..