Nathan Wolfe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 left to explore on Earth.”

“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.”

“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 global immune system.”

“About 20 percent of the genetic information in your nose doesn't match anything that we've ever seen before.”

“If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.”

“Many people on our planet right now despair; they think we've reached a point where we've discovered most of the things. I'm going tell you right now: Please don't despair.”

“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.”

“The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.”

“Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We should be monitoring those animals and the humans that come into contact with them, so we can catch these viruses early, before they infect major cities and spread throughout the world.”

“If we can provide even a few months of early warning for just one pandemic, the benefits will outweigh all the time and energy we're devoting. Imagine preventing health crises, not just responding to them.”