Because Quote by Jill Lepore

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes…

— Alan Huffman

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

— Leana S. Wen

Given exponential growth dynamics of infectious diseases, containing an epidemic is straightforward early on, but nearly impossible once a disease spreads among a population.

— Zeynep Tufekci

Epidemics, like disasters, have a way of revealing underlying truths about the societies they impact.

— Anne Applebaum

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

— Alan Huffman

There is no firm dividing line between what is an epidemic and what is not an epidemic, but I think, when you look at…

— Julie Gerberding

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading…

— Jill Lepore

There are epidemics of nobleness as well as epidemics of disease.

— James Anthony Froude

Without strong health systems in place, the higher the population density, the more difficult it becomes to prevent and control outbreaks, and not just…

— Seth Berkley

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading…

— Jill Lepore

What must underlie successful epidemics, in the end, is a bedrock belief that change is possible, that people can radically transform their behavior or…

— Malcolm Gladwell

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