Peter Piot quotes

“In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy”
-- Peter Piot

Source : "In 1976 I discovered Ebola - now I fear an unimaginable tragedy", www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2014.

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“Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.”
-- Peter Piot

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“The era of implementation has started. The world is now committed to universal treatment.”
-- Peter Piot

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“We all need to begin thinking out of the box.”
-- Peter Piot

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“The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.”
-- Peter Piot

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“I wouldn't be worried to sit next to someone with Ebola virus on the Tube as long as they don't vomit on you or something. This is an infection that requires very close contact.”
-- Peter Piot

Source : "Ebola fears grow as experts say epidemic could spread to US, Europe and Asia remain on alert". www.news.com.au. July 31, 2014.

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“Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.”
-- Peter Piot

Source : "Ebola Co-Discoverer: 'This Was an Avoidable Catastrophe'" by Peter Piot, time.com. October 1, 2014.

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“Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola”
-- Peter Piot

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“Democrats have a long history of utilizing the threat of a potential Ebola outbreak to request massive federal funds while attacking Republicans for expressing skepticism over their funding schemes.”

“Ebola has shown that the world is not ready to deal with an epidemic on this scale.”

“Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.”

“No travel ban or quarantine will seal a country completely. Even if travel could be reduced by eighty per cent-itself a feat-models predict that new transmissions would be delayed only a few weeks. Worse, it would only drive an increase in the number of cases at the source. Health-care workers who have fallen ill would not be able to get out for treatment, and the international health personnel needed to quell the outbreak would no longer be able to go in.”

“It's a tragedy that modernity has released this Ebola beast into the world. It renders humans untouchable, and that's sickening. The international response so far has been scandalous. China has delivered f**k all.”

“We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.”

“This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.”

“No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a Luciferian Initiation”

“The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.”

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”