We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
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 because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals.… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
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… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals,… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
