9 Quotes & Sayings By Anthony Fauci

Anthony Fauci is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. NIAID's mission is to understand, prevent, and control infectious diseases that threaten public health. NIAID conducts research into the causes of infection, develops vaccines to prevent infection, and evaluates new drugs and technologies to prevent, diagnose, and treat these diseases. NIAID also conducts research on human papillomavirus (HPV), a disease that causes more than 400,000 cancers in women each year Read more

In January 2014, he was named a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Dr. Fauci is a professor in the Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine at Baltimore.

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I enjoy very much communication. I think that scientists need to communicate. Anthony Fauci
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Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold. Anthony Fauci
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Some people feel, you make your case, if they listen to you, fine, if they don't, that's it. That's not what leadership is. Leadership is trying to continue to make a case. Anthony Fauci
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I think the media can be a very positive influence by essentially holding people to task about the importance of high quality medical care. And when the media is scrutinizing you, then I think that's a very good, positive thing for the field of medicine. Anthony Fauci
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Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with a continual pipeline of new antibiotics and continue with the perpetual challenge. Anthony Fauci
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The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases. Anthony Fauci
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I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society. Anthony Fauci
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The most pressing ethical question is to make sure that everything you do from a scientific standpoint is done for the ultimate good and positive issue for the people that you're caring about. Anthony Fauci