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Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

In today's world, it is shortsighted to think that infectious diseases cannot cross borders. By allowing developing countries access to generic drugs, we not only help improve health in those nations, we also help ourselves control these debilitating and often deadly diseases.

A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

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.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox cropping up.

Alternative medicine plays into this exaggerated notion that you can prevent disease simply by doing the right thing.

It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.