Horror movie Quote by Douglas Preston

Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with…

— Alyssa Milano

“Throughout the Americas, diseases introduced with Europeans spread from tribe to tribe far in advance of the Europeans themselves, killing an estimated 95 percent…

— Jared Diamond

“Europeans killed many native people directly without the assistance of disease. In some instances, they intentionally used disease as a biological weapon by, for…

— Douglas Preston

It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians…

— Jared Diamond

“Humans, as a species, are constantly, and in every way, comparing themselves to one another, which, given the brief nature of their existence, seems…

— Donald Miller

“Colonial writers knew that disease tilled the virgin soil of the Americas countless times in the sixteenth century. But what they did not, could…

— Charles C. Mann

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed…

— Jared Diamond

Wherever the European has trod, death seems to pursue the aboriginal.

— Charles Darwin

“Famine, plague and war will probably continue to claim millions of victims in the coming decades. Yet they are no longer unavoidable tragedies beyond…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918–1919, some 50 million people were killed by something far too small to even see, let alone hunt and destroy.…

— Bill Nye

“Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The…

— Nancy Farmer

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and…

— Alan Huffman