During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“I attained a triumph so complete that it is now rare to meet an American with marks of small pox on his… — Benjamin Waterhouse Copy Share Image
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves,… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war.… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
The last few centuries have seen the world freed from several scourges-slavery, for example; death by torture for heretics; and, most recently,… — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps… — Peter C. Doherty Copy Share Image
Science, pure science, is leading us in a sense astray. Leading us astray with the idea that everybody has got to have… — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by… — Hans Zinsser Copy Share Image
Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in… — Jennifer Niven Copy Share Image
In 1967, the world health community launched a global effort to eradicate smallpox. It took a coordinated, worldwide effort, required the commitment… — Liya Kebede Copy Share Image
One great reason why men practice generosity so little in the world, is, their finding so little there: generosity is catching; and… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
You don't have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox… — Anthony Fauci Copy Share Image
Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You dont have to vaccinate every man, woman and child in the country if you have a couple of cases of smallpox… — Anthony S. Fauci Copy Share Image
Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have… — Barton Gellman Copy Share Image
“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it… — John Tilden M.D Copy Share Image
They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is the common… — George Amos Dorsey Copy Share Image
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who… — John Green Copy Share Image
If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see… — John Green Copy Share Image
“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious… — Richard Preston Copy Share Image
“In the most deadly variety of smallpox, the hemorrhagic form, called the bloody pox or black pox, the skin turns a deep… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in… — Terry Hayes Copy Share Image
“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever,… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
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