Concepts Quote by Rene Dubos

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong

“Look, there’s no debate among microbiologists—a pandemic is coming. Sooner or later one of these bugs is going to be stronger and faster than…

— Sean Chercover

I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress.

— Bill Gates

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 have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

— Bill Gates

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible…

— Lewis Thomas

At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials, essential cures for many millions of people,…

— Margaret Chan

Our goal is not to completely eradicate the infection - that would be very difficult - but to produce a vaccine that will prevent…

— Luc Montagnier

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

— Bill Gates

Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

— Hans Zinsser

The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of…

— Jimmy Carter