"The key piece here is early recognition of an infection. Will people make the connection between travel to West Africa and the possibility the illness the patient is being seen for is due to the Ebola virus?"
"The only guaranteed solution to ending this Ebola crisis is to develop, manufacture, and deliver an effective Ebola vaccine, potentially to most of the people in West Africa . . . and it is still a long way off."
“How will we contain this virus? I think ultimately it’s going to be vaccine, but that’s many months off. So get ready to deal with this for many more months to come.”
"The current Ebola virus’s hyper-evolution is unprecedented; there has been more human-to-human transmission in the past 4 months than most likely occurred in the last 500 to 1,000 years."
"Unless we invest more resources in fighting it — and coordinate the response across countries — the [Ebola] outbreak will spread further. If that happens, economic and political chaos could follow."
“It's clear that what the NSABB was, and what it may be will be very different. The billion-dollar question is whether science, the government and most of all, citizens, will be lesser served. I'm afraid so.”
"If we’ve got lab problems in our best labs, does anyone really expect that the other labs of the world are going to do any better in terms of lab safety?”
"The last place you want to be mixing up samples is in influenza. The ability for that to jump from the lab bench to the community is substantially greater."
