Quote by David Quammen

“When a pathogen leaps from some nonhuman animal into a person, and succeeds there in establishing itself as an infectious presence, sometimes causing illness…

— David Quammen

“The accelerating pace of zoonotic transmission of novel viruses into humans is attributable to anthropogenic epidemiologic factors. Only behavior modification or medical management of…

— Michael G Cordingley

“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“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

Bacteria and parasites cannot cause disease processes unless they find their own peculiar morbid soil in which to grow and multiply.

— Henry Lindlahr

“In all likelihood, the most significant of these is a heightened chance of acquiring harmful parasites or diseases from a conspecific. Both parasites and…

— Bill Schutt

“Our findings highlight the critical need for health monitoring and identification of new, potentially zoonotic pathogens in wildlife populations, as a forecast measure for…

— David Quammen

“تصاب الحيوانات بالمرض, و لكن الإنسان فقط يمرض جذرياً animals get diseases, but only man falls radically into sickness.”

— Oliver Sacks

Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment."

— William Thomas Councilman

“The viruses that cause smallpox, influenza, hepatitis, measles, encephalitis, and viral pneumonia; the bacteria that cause tuberculosis, diphtheria, cholera, typhus, scarlet fever, and bacterial…

— Charles C. Mann

We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a…

— David Quammen

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for…

— Margaret Chan