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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 24 quotes by Nathan Wolfe Nathan D. Wolfe (born August 24, 1970) is an American virologist. He is currently Director of Global Viral and the Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology at Stanford University. Dr. Wolfe spent over eight years conducting biomedical research in both sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia. In 2007, he founded Global Viral with the goal of developing an early warning system for pandemics to monitor the transmission of infectious... Read full biography of Nathan Wolfe → 1 2 Ctrl → Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and... → 0 If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life... → 0 Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from... → 0 We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have... → 0 When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory... → 0 I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the... → 0 Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals... → 0 We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned... → 0 With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you have to look at the... → 0 The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in... → 0 We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and... → 0 Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell... → 0 We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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