"It’s a very, very low risk to the United States, but it’s something that we as public health officials need to take very seriously... It isn’t something the American public needs to worry about or be frightened about. Because we have ways of preparing and screening of people coming in . And we have ways of responding - like we did with this one case in Seattle, Washington, who had traveled to China and brought back the infection. We’ve just got to make sure that we are totally prepared infectious diseases will continue to emerge on the human species. And we’ve got to be essentially perpetually prepared."

“Getting death threats for me and my family and harassing my daughters to the point where I have to get security is just, I mean, it's amazing”

“I'd say we have a couple of people who've recovered, they've gotten excellent medical care and the specific therapy, ZMapp … may have had a role in it but we don't know.”

“It’s almost like passing a baton in a race. You don’t want to stop, and then give it to somebody, you want to just essentially keep going”

“I can't jump in front of the microphone and push him down. OK, he said it. Let's try and get it corrected for the next time.”

“This is material that is quite formidable, that is infecting people with inhalation anthrax, infecting them in the absence of direct contact. You can call it whatever you want to call it with regard to grade and size or weaponized or not weaponized. The fact is, it is acting like a highly efficient bioterrorist agent.”

“... the same message has to ... be reiterated over and over again, because either people don't hear it, or they don't believe it, or they don't adopt it.”