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Sometimes your immune system gets a little heated, and you're more susceptible to getting some illnesses that way.

We mostly don't get sick. Most often, bacteria are keeping us well.

Young women, adolescent girls, are more subject to infection, sometimes at a rate of six times that of boys. That tells you a lot about the vulnerability of women.

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

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.

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

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

We are sick because our cells are sick.

Since most of the transmission is sexual transmission, you have a regional or local response to the virus.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.