Diseases Quote by Zeynep Tufekci

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

— Jill Lepore

“increases of the infectivity rate may lead to large epidemics.” This quiet warning has echoed loudly ever since. It’s a cardinal truth, over which…

— David Quammen

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

By definition, outbreaks are quickly evolving situations. Outbreaks with novel diseases bring even more unknowns.

— Leana S. Wen

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

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

— Bill Gates

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

— Alan Huffman

Modeling an exponential process necessarily produces a wide range of outcomes. In the case of COVID-19, that's because the spread of the disease depends…

— Zeynep Tufekci

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

— Nathan Wolfe

“The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.”

— Martin J. Rees

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the…

— Anonymous

“An epidemic worse than any plague that humankind has ever seen has been raging for centuries. It is the “don’t want” epidemic.”

— Rhonda Byrne