Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Gates

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

With any disease in wildlife, there are so many factors, getting a good handle on it can be difficult.

The problem is that people don't see these diseases and think they no longer exist. These viruses and diseases are still circulating around the world and are just a plane ride away, and they will return if we don't keep our vaccination rates up.

When we left, the problem was really just beginning. People were just starting to realize how quickly the disease spreads.

We wanted to get information out to staff, visitors and others that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women and raising money for the Heart Association by selling bracelets and red dress pins.

This will be the most powerful genetic study that has ever been undertaken for MS or for any other disease.

There are a lot of unknowns about these diseases, and CWD is probably the most enigmatic.

When you have this disease, you can't ever go to the doctor by yourself. You just can't do that kind of a thing alone. You have to take anyone: friends, family, even a random guy from the street.

There are a few genes that have been implicated in the development of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, but other than APOE, no genes have been found that increase risk for the more common, late-onset form of the disease.

We already have a plan in place for disease outbreaks, but this one must be much more specific.

We all live with the terminal disease called Life.

David Byrne

very foolish to underestimate the potential for the disease to spread.

The reasons for this unusual severity of human disease have remained unclear.

We've never seen a disease spread out as much as this one has in the past 18 months to two years.

Craig Venter

We can now diagnose diseases that haven't even manifested in the patient, and may not until the fifth decade of life - if at all.

Those 2,966 earmarks are a symptom of a disease that is preventing our troops from getting the tools they need.

With regard to particulates, dust and soot in the air, that has been linked to an increase in lung disease and lung cancer.

And we were swamped--the health issues, the malnutrition, the diseases were remarkable.

Fixing the teeth is treating the symptoms. The disease process still exists.

John Beasley

Farmers and the peanut industry are always looking for more disease-resistant, higher-performing varieties.

Even if you take every year the problems of malaria, tuberculosis and HIV /AIDS, which are horrible, pandemic influenza has the potential in just one fell swoop to kill so many more people than those diseases kill in decades.

Bioscience and biotech offer many opportunities. The U.S. focuses on the rich man; India has rich man diseases and poor man diseases. So you have a much larger set of opportunities.

Robert Wright

Every image tells a story. They pilfered each other's tribes. They fought the cavalry. They fought disease. They fought trappers.

At the time she died, she had a severe medical disease. She did not know what she was doing.

DISTRESS, n. A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.

DIAGNOSIS, n. A physician's forecast of the disease by the patient's pulse and purse.

Siri Hustvedt

We live in a culture that is much happier talking about organic brain disease than about psychic illness because the former suggests that something that is physically wrong in a brain is wholly unrelated to that person's upbringing or experiences in the world, but that is not necessarily true.

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

We will now go to grassroots, even door-to-door surveys to move towards eradication of the disease.

There's no kitty CDC, so it's not a reportable disease and there isn't really any place that information is gathered on disease incidence,

There's not much infectious disease risk from dust or mold, or even floodwaters if you take proper precautions.

David Mitchell

There's a disease that young writers are susceptible to, which is, I will do this because I can - hubris, I suppose - without stopping to work out why.

David Perlmutter

Inflammation is the cornerstone of Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis - all of the neurodegenerative diseases are really predicated on inflammation.