Quote by David Quammen

I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable.

— Barack Obama

“It comes and it goes. But epidemiologists have recognized that, with measles virus, as with other pathogens, there’s a critical minimum size of the…

— David Quammen

“From 1963 through 1965, a nationwide epidemic of rubella—German measles—caused thousands of women to deliver babies who were handicapped in some way:”

— Lou Ann Walker

Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

— Hans Zinsser

“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

“Hamer was especially interested in why diseases such as influenza, diphtheria, and measles seem to mount into major outbreaks in a cyclical pattern—rising to…

— David Quammen

For each illness that doctors cure with medicine, they provoke ten in healthy people by inoculating them with the virus that is a thousand…

— Marcel Proust

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try…

— Andrea Barrett

Misinformation or distrust of vaccines can be like a contagion that can spread as fast as measles.

— Theresa Tam

“How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

With infectious disease, without vaccines, there's no safety in numbers.

— Seth Berkley

“This might be a good time to mention that if you learn about an airborne virus that seems to be killing otherwise healthy young…

— Jennifer Wright