Robert Webster Quotes (10 Quotes)

This virus keeps extending its range, ... It is out there spreading like crazy among the wild birds of Asia.

I think the vaccine would give you partial protection. It would probably protect you from death. You would probably get very sick but not die.

Any selective pressure on this virus ensures plenty of opportunity for H5N1 to acquire amantadine resistance, which would bring additional difficulties in controlling the pandemic.

The clock keeps ticking. Every time this virus replicates, it makes mistakes, ... Sooner or later it will make the mistakes that will allow it to go human to human.

These viruses can be out there in apparently healthy birds all the time. These viruses are not killing all the chickens that carry them, so they are out there.

It is the worst influenza virus that I have ever seen. When you put it in a ferret, it causes hind leg paralysis and goes to the brain. Don't take it lightly, because it could wipe the hell out of us.

It was so very fast. You felt sick in the morning, went to bed at lunchtime and were dead by the evening, with blood coming out of your ears and everywhere.

You just don't know when it is going to happen, ... But I think some of the policy makers and politicians are starting to listen.

He can work with the Chinese perhaps better than anyone else in the world. Getting them to cooperate can be extremely difficult. Fukuda is as good as anyone else at doing this sort of thing cool and calm.

This is information that we need to know - fundamental and exciting.