Quote by David Quammen

“increases of the infectivity rate may lead to large epidemics.” This quiet warning has echoed loudly ever since. It’s a cardinal truth, over which…

— David Quammen

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

— Leana S. Wen

“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

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around,…

— Margaret Atwood

“first outbreak in the States, the human race could have easily faced extinction. In 1918 the feat of traveling from Kansas to Moscow in…

— Jacqueline Druga

Swine flu is not an anomaly. We know that swine flu - like the vast majority of new outbreaks - comes from animals. We…

— Nathan Wolfe

Seasonal flu is now a pandemic that lasts for years and years because you've got so many people that it's jumping back between northern…

— Nathan Wolfe

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant…

— Anonymous

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

— Jill Lepore

There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and…

— Mira Grant

“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

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird…

— Chuck Klosterman