Combat Quote by Jill Lepore

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

— Jill Lepore

The stories about epidemics that are told in the American press - their plots and tropes - date to the nineteen-twenties, when modern research…

— Jill Lepore

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

— Anne Applebaum

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

There is a tendency to attack some particular group of people and scapegoat them, but this is not the right attitude to cope with…

— Park Won-soon

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

Epidemiologists routinely turn to models to predict the progression of an infectious disease. Fighting public suspicion of these models is as old as modern…

— Zeynep Tufekci

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

— Cyril Ramaphosa

Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.

— Bill Gates

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

— Peter Piot

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new…

— Peter Lewis Allen