Infectious Diseases Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.
— Martha Beck
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children will not have an adequate…
— Margaret Chan
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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The pure culture is the foundation for all research on infectious disease.
— Robert Koch
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For the public ever to break command science it must first understand the basis of its enormous powers.......Traditionally, the power of medical sciences has been…
— Peter Duesberg
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Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
— Hans Zinsser
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Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.
— Peter Rogers
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In all, 86 per cent of the increased life expectancy was due to decreases in infectious diseases. And the bulk of the decline in infectious…
— Laurie Garrett
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Sadism is not an infectious disease that strikes a person all of a sudden. It has a long prehistory in childhood and always originates in…
— Alice Miller
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The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before.
— Arthur Erickson
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I have seen this happen in recent years with regard to pharmaceuticals and vaccines, where, working together, we are improving access to medicines and vaccines…
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
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My own personal view is that vaccines are unsafe and worthless. I will not allow myself to be vaccinated again. .....The bottom line is that…
— Vernon Coleman
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We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the…
— Harvey V. Fineberg
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We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water,…
— Kofi Annan
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Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own…
— Linda Sunshine
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My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as…
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
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We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought…
— Hans Zinsser
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China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird…
— Wen Jiabao
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Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is…
— Rachel Carson
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It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer…
— William H. Stewart
Who Wrote These Infectious Diseases Quotes
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