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I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

— Andrew Lansley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent not infection but disease. I think this is more possible.

— Luc Montagnier

I am very puzzled by the fact that young people are getting infected again. They don't take precautions despite an enormous amount of information. It's like riding a race car at 200 kilometers an hour. Some people like the risk.

— Luc Montagnier

Infectious diseases have become less prominent as causes of death and disability in regions of improved sanitation and adequate supplies of antibiotics.

— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

— Janine Benyus

Whoever refuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection.

— Richard von Weizsaecker

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

It's clear that prevention will never be sufficient. That's why we need a vaccine that will be safe.

— Luc Montagnier

Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

— Anthony Fauci

We have learned a lot about how to treat Ebola, how to ensure that the people caring for people with Ebola do so minimizing their risk of infection.

— Tom Frieden

✗Opposing Perspectives

Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.

— Florence Nightingale