Bad news Quote by David Quammen

“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

“The people who wrote viruses knew they had to stay one step ahead; they developed ways to make their viruses more difficult to detect.”

— Peter H. Gregory

“virus writers lack the basic social and moral values and the “well-formed consciousness” that are the hallmarks of civilized modern societies.”

— Peter H. Gregory

“Bacteria and viruses were the most effective allies.”

— Eduardo Hughes Galeano

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have…

— Hans Zinsser

“The Hegemony had known how to treat cancer, but most of the gene-tailoring knowledge and technology had been lost after the Fall.”

— Dan Simmons

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.

— Craig Raine

“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

“What do scientists mean when they talk of a virus? This is not quite so elementary as some people might believe. In The Shorter…

— Frank Ryan

I could cure Covid and still the first line would be: 'He was that guy who was fired from 'Blue Peter' and the head…

— Richard Bacon

I share Alfred Nobel's conviction that war is the greatest of all human disasters. Infectious disease runs a good second.

— Peter C. Doherty