Death Quote by Molly Caldwell Crosby

“In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off…

— Richard Preston

Yellow fever outbreaks are not uncommon. But, as with other infectious diseases, when they occur in urban areas, they can play out very differently…

— Seth Berkley

Fever itself is Nature's instrument.

— Thomas Sydenham

“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

“How is it you can keep mutating and still be the same deadly virus?”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Not all diseases come from bacteria and viruses, Professor. The worst often come from things you cannot see under a microscope. This plant is…

— Taona Dumisani Chiveneko

“For the most part, we live in an uncomfortable equilibrium with bacteria and viruses, both those inside of us and those outside, in the…

— A.G. Riddle

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

— Hans Zinsser

“Nine out of ten humans killed? And you're not bothered." A look of mysterious thoughtfulness crossed his face. "A virus can be useful to…

— Richard Preston

“It had initially been thought that the zombie virus was an offshoot of Ebola. Many zombie-virus symptoms mimicked the terrible, hemorrhagic fever.”

— Andrew Cormier

“The people who wrote viruses knew they had to stay one step ahead; they developed ways to make their viruses more difficult to detect.”

— Peter H. Gregory

“When a virus enters a cell, it sheds its coat, and begins to use the cell as a factory to copy its genes, and…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee