About Quote by Ann Veneman

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived…

— Peter Lewis Allen

“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the…

— Hans Zinsser

“The conditions necessary for devastating epidemics or pandemics just didn't exist until the agricultural revolution. The claim that modern medicine and sanitation save us…

— Cacilda Jethá

The most dangerous infections of humans have always been those which have emerged from other species.

— Mark Walport

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed…

— Jared Diamond

I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where…

— Will Estes

The features of globalization have huge consequences on pandemics. It just connects us so much more closely... And as a consequence, every one of…

— Nathan Wolfe

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians…

— Jared Diamond

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern…

— Rachel Carson

The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

— Bill Gates

“When James Larrick and his colleagues studied the still relatively isolated Waorani Indians of Ecuador, they found no evidence of hypertension, heart disease, or…

— Christopher Ryan