Nathan Wolfe Quotes

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• Don't assume that what we currently think is out there is the full story. Go after the dark matter, in whatever field you choose to…
• About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
• 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…
• The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of these…
• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
• We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a…
• 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…
• I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush those that have the potential…
• Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should…
• There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And…
• We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build a…
• Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the first instance, from animals, especially…
• The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.
• 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…
• As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

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