"The features of globalization have huge consequences on……" — Nathan Wolfe
"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 viruses that passes from animals to humans has the capacity to infect all of us."
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Nathan Wolfe
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15 Quotes by Nathan Wolfe
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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…
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About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.
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We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that…
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If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
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We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is…
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With epidemics, people have been standing on the shore, waiting for the gusher to hit the ocean. But to prevent…
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I work to create systems that can accurately detect pandemics early, determine their likely importance, and, with any luck, crush…
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Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks -…
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There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they…
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We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with…
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Pandemics do not occur randomly. From malaria and influenza to AIDS and SARS, the lethal microbes have come, in the…
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The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on…
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