Definition Quote by Leana S. Wen

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

— Jill Lepore

The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.

— Tom Frieden

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

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

We feel confident that there won't be an outbreak. The people who were around the patient are now being identified and traced by the…

— Anthony S. Fauci

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

— Nathan Wolfe

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

— David Nabarro

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

“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the…

— David Quammen

There was no warning before the outbreaks began. One day, things were normal; the next, people who were supposedly dead were getting up and…

— Mira Grant

In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even…

— John Linder

Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around,…

— Margaret Atwood