Disease Quote by Larry Brilliant

“Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more people than any other infectious pathogen, including…

— Richard Preston

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it's just such a dramatic success.

— Bill Gates

“One of the medical profession's greatest boasts is that it eradicated smallpox through the use of the smallpox vaccine. I myself believed this claim…

— Anonymous

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the…

— Bill Gates

We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics.

— Bill Gates

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history…

— Barton Gellman

Affectation is a greater enemy to the face than smallpox

— English Proverb

Disease has always been a much bigger killer of human beings than wars.

— Margaret Atwood

In 1980 we declared the globe free of smallpox. It was the largest campaign in United Nations history until the Iraq war. A hundred…

— Larry Brilliant

Smallpox is natural; vaccine ain't.

— Ogden Nash

Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions…

— Scott Gottlieb

“we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart”

— Richard Preston