“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.” — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
“The last thing he heard was Medichi's voice crying out, "It must be the goddamn breh-hedden. Again. Holy shit! It's a fucking… — Caris Roane Copy Share Image
“Incest, rape and abuse is rampant everywhere, even in our churches, but society is silent. It is a silent epidemic. One in… — Diane Chamberlain Copy Share Image
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent. — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
Lyme disease has become a fast epidemic worldwide. I am determined to help find a cure and figure out a way to… — Yolanda Hadid Copy Share Image
“In the Middle Ages the outbreak of a plague caused people to raise their eyes towards heaven, and pray to God to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the panic of white slavery lives on in our politics today. Black workers suffer, something in nature has gone awry. And… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Unsurprisingly, Hong Kong has had a long history of epidemics. The 1968 flu pandemic that killed 1 million people around the world… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
People love information. Right now in our society, we have an obesity epidemic. Because for the first time in history, we have… — Marco Arment Copy Share Image
The AIDS epidemic began before I was born - I've never known a world without it. And yet, despite its omnipresence in… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still… — Sienna Guillory Copy Share Image
It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
“the media coverage of the ‘opiate epidemic’ as driven by pill pushing-doctors and by pain patients worries me a lot, and I… — Anita Gupta Copy Share Image
In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force;… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
Skyjackers had a pretty abysmal success rate - once you commandeered a plane in American airspace, your odds of a happy ending… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
If you want to deal with an epidemic - crime or health - the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to… — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
“Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“If the epidemic continues its mathematical rate of acceleration, civilization could easily disappear from the face of the earth.” —The Army Surgeon… — Jacqueline Druga Copy Share Image
“An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” epidemic.” — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
“If you don’t feel ordained by the Universe to do this job, do something else. The intelligence community has to shut down… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology Copy Share Image
“[T]he salient question is whether the increasing awareness of [heart] disease beginning in the 1920s coincided with the budding of an epidemic… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of… — Iris Chang Copy Share Image
“We, all of us, have been affected by war, hurricanes, drought, economic hardship. The result is a disease—an epidemic—called ‘hopelessness.’ It’s carried… — Charles Martin Copy Share Image
“I believe that today we’re facing a psychological epidemic, one in which people no longer realize it’s okay for things to suck… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Well we can't be having that. One person starts having fun and it turns into an epidemic. Difficult to stop that kind… — Lauren Cagliola Green Copy Share Image
War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to get worse… — Tom Frieden Copy Share Image
“In just a few decades, dramatic changes have occurred in our relationship to stress. There are many illnesses that are now associated… — Henry Emmons Copy Share Image
As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new… — Seth Berkley Copy Share Image
War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image