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It was astonishing that for some considerable distance around the mould growth the staphococcal colonies were undergoing lysis. What had formerly been a well-grown…

— Alexander Fleming

I've had staph a few times myself and MRSA.

— Alexander Volkanovski

“Diseases don’t ruin lives just because they rot off noses. They destroy people if the rest of society isolates them and treats them as…

— Jennifer Wright

“There is no question but that perfect sanitation has almost obliteraed this disease, smallpox, and sooner or later, will dispose of it entirely. Of…

— John Tilden M.D

We need to know more about how group A strep interact with humans to cause so many different illnesses.

— Anthony Fauci

“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

Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

— Hans Zinsser

“Infectious disease is one of the great tragedies of living things - the struggle for existence between two different forms of life... Incessantly, the…

— Hans Zinsser

The world can now maintain an acute infection in a way that is unprecedented in the history of life on our planet.

— Nathan Wolfe

“Okay, but what about microbial disease? “To declare war on ninety-nine percent of bacteria when less than one percent of them threaten our health…

— Michael Pollan

“the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

— David Quammen

“That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the…

— Charles Dickens