Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shereen El Feki

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Robert Atkins

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

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

George Bernard Shaw

During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

The North American West Nile virus epidemic persists.

Its an epidemic in the United States, and its croaking us,

Mike DeWine

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Why is it that wellnesses are not as contagious as illnesses--generally speaking, but also especially regarding taste? Or are there epidemics of health?

Jeanne Phillips

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Morgan Fairchild

When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.

the epidemic is starting to be effectively contained.

Malcolm Gladwell

The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

Malcolm Gladwell

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Nathan Wolfe

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

Margaret Chan

Many diseases including malaria, dengue, meningitis - just a few examples - these are what we call climate-sensitive diseases, because such climate dimensions for rainfall, humidity and temperature would influence the epidemics, the outbreaks, either directly influencing the parasites or the mosquitoes that carry them.

Katha Pollitt

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Tim Holden

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

William J. Clinton

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.