Beginning Quote by Harald zur Hausen

Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of…

— Harald zur Hausen

“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, and bacterial…

— Charles C. Mann

From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they…

— Harold E. Varmus

I think that our progress on key diseases over the next several decades is going to be pretty amazing and so I am very…

— Bill Gates

In retrospect, I have devoted my scientific life mainly to the question to what extent infectious agents contribute to human cancer, trusting that this…

— Harald zur Hausen

It is important to note that there exist vast gender differences in the global role of papillomaviruses in human cancers. This is mainly due…

— Harald zur Hausen

Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man…

— Viera Scheibner

“In the early '70s, the nation was afflicted with incurable pattern viruses - small microbes that reproduced and multiplied from a single swatch left…

— James Lileks

I read a newspaper article in May 1984 which predicted that syringes would one day be a major cause of the transmission of HIV.…

— Marc Koska

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the…

— Norman Swan

Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution…

— Harald zur Hausen

Cancer is, in general, an increasingly important topic, in part because we've gotten so good at preventing other forms of death that cancer, despite…

— Stephen J. Dubner