Nathan Wolfe Born : August 24, 1970 Browse All Authors Top 24 quotes by Nathan Wolfe Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia. Nathan Wolfe merainworkanimal 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 newnew-thingstimeworld 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 learnanimalswaitlong 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 humanstagechanceanimal
