Epidemics Quote by Bill Gates

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

— Peter Piot

Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just…

— Seth Berkley

“The same tools that enable doctors to quickly identify and cure new illnesses may also enable armies and terrorists to engineer even more terrible…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

— Alan Huffman

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

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

“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

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the…

— Bill Gates

“the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

— David Quammen

“Scientists now know, too, that huge dust storms like the ones that recently blanketed Arizona, northern China, Australia, and other arid areas are also…

— Linda Marsa

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum

As megacities like Mexico City and Lagos become increasingly common, we could see a rise of the urban epidemic and a new era of…

— Seth Berkley