"With epidemics, people have been standing on the……" — Nathan Wolfe
"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 at the various little sources that feed into the river."
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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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The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a…
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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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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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