Nathan Wolfe

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've…

— Nathan Wolfe

If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand…

— Nathan Wolfe

If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time…

— Nathan Wolfe

There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come…

— Nathan Wolfe

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from…

— Nathan Wolfe

The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It…

— Nathan Wolfe

We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools…

— Nathan Wolfe

I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that…

— Nathan Wolfe

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

— Nathan Wolfe

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a…

— Nathan Wolfe

Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around…

— Nathan Wolfe

Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance,…

— Nathan Wolfe

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…

— Nathan Wolfe

When there is an influenza threat, drop everything and focus on risks from influenza pandemics. When SARS spreads, focus on unknown respiratory…

— Nathan Wolfe

Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back…

— Nathan Wolfe

Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field…

— Nathan Wolfe

We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean…

— Nathan Wolfe

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

— Nathan Wolfe

The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every…

— Nathan Wolfe

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…

— Nathan Wolfe

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

— Nathan Wolfe

About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.

— Nathan Wolfe

We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into…

— Nathan Wolfe

With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent epidemics, you…

— Nathan Wolfe