Along Quote by Alan Huffman

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try…

— Andrea Barrett

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

— Leana S. Wen

Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either…

— Alan Huffman

Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

— Hans Zinsser

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the…

— Anonymous

Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in…

— Henry E. Sigerist

Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population.

— Zeynep Tufekci

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at…

— Julie Gerberding

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

— Alan Huffman

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around,…

— Margaret Atwood