a sobering finding ... it tells us you still have to worry about this, but you have to worry about something else too, because somehow, somewhere, the virus is coming from a place that we haven't yet identified.

As we build up our capacity to respond to seasonal influenza, it will put us in good stead.

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.

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Inevitably, malaria parasites developed resistance to commonly used drugs, and mosquito vectors became insecticide-resistant.