Evolution Quote by Cacilda Jethá

“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

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

“Flu pandemics are nothing new. Medical historians think the first one struck in 1510, infecting Asia, Africa, Europe, and the New World. Between the…

— Albert Marrin

We live in a world fraught with risk from new pandemics. Fortunately, we also now live in an era with the tools to build…

— Nathan Wolfe

“consumption of grains is probably responsible for most, if not all, of the noncommunicable diseases we face as a civilization today, we”

— Sarah Ballantyne

“So in the struggle against natural calamities such as AIDS and Ebola, the scales are tipping in humanity’s favour. But what about the dangers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The pandemic has proved true over and over again what was already well known: that income and wealth are protective when it comes to…

— Annie Lowrey

“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the…

— David Quammen

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

“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of…

— John Tilden M.D

Diseases are a threat to us all. And so is climate change.

— Alok Sharma

“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby