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. Nathan Wolfe epidemicfeedgusher Change image and share on social
If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether. Nathan Wolfe adaptaltogetheranimal share on social
There are commonalities among all the pandemics that occur, and we can learn from them. One commonality is that they all come from animals. And the other commonality is that we wait too long. Nathan Wolfe animalcommonalitylearn Change image and share on social
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. Nathan Wolfe despairdiscoverhave Change image and share on social
We've put huge resources into predicting tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes. HIV/AIDS is like an earthquake that's lasted 30 years and touched every country on the planet. We have such incredible capacity to think about the future, it's time we used it to predict biological threats. Otherwise we'll be blindsided again and again. Nathan Wolfe aidbiologicalblindsided share on social
Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern and southern hemispheres and moving itself around the world. By the time it gets back to where it started, it's changed sufficiently so that people are no longer immune. Nathan Wolfe backchangeflu share on social
We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans. Nathan Wolfe categorychimpanzeeconcern share on social
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. Nathan Wolfe choiceforecastpandemic Change image and share on social
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. Nathan Wolfe chartcontinentdiscover Change image and share on social
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. Nathan Wolfe builderafortunately Change image and share on social