Quotes About Epidemics
Why listen to me? I can only predict epidemics and plagues.
~ Larry Kramer
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Everyone knew that the weather was such a system—aperiodic. Nature is full of others: animal populations that rise and fall almost regularly, epidemics that come and go on tantalizingly near-regular schedules. If the weather ever did reach a state exactly like one it had reached before, every gust and cloud the same, then presumably it would repeat itself forever after and the problem of forecasting would become trivial.
~ James Gleick
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Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and agonies of the soul, but all the time his most tormenting tragedy has been, is, and will always be, the tragedy of the bedroom.
~ Leo Tolstoy
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Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.
~ Thomas Watson
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Things like depression and obesity are global challenges.
~ Jane McGonigal
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Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues. The first known one was the Babylon flu epidemic around 1200 BC. The plague of Athens in 429 BC killed close to 100,000 people, the Antonine plague in the second century killed ten million, the plague of Justinian in the sixth century killed fifty million, and the Black Death of the fourteenth century took almost 200 million lives, close to half of Europe's population.
~ Walter Isaacson
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Hristiyanl???n erken döneminde (MS ilk 3 yy), her musibet -k?tl?k, deprem, salg?n- toplu ?ekilde Hristiyanl??a geçi?e sebep olmu?tur. Hristiyanl?k, h?yarc?kl? vebaya ve çiçek hastal???na çok ?ey borçludur.
~ Hans Zinsser
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According to his dad's journal, vampires had been through some of the worst epidemics in history. And apparently, during the days of the Black Plague, their biggest complaint had been rotten "food".
~ Heather Brewer
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As more and more people adopt an urban lifestyle and cities continue to swell, not only does the risk of urban epidemics increase - something we haven't seen much of for decades - but the need for larger emergency stockpiles can increase, too.
~ Seth Berkley
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics, and genocide. Those collisions created reverberations that have still not died down after many centuries, and that are actively continuing in some of the world's most troubled areas today.
~ Jared Diamond
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Atahuallpa's presence at Cajamarca thus highlights one of the key factors in world history: diseases transmitted to peoples lacking immunity by invading peoples with considerable immunity. Smallpox, measles, influenza, typhus, bubonic plague, and other infectious diseases endemic in Europe played a decisive role in European conquests, by decimating many peoples on other continents.
~ Jared Diamond
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La historia de las interacciones de los pueblos distintos es lo que configuró el mundo moderno mediante la conquista, las epidemias y el genocidio.
~ Jared Diamond
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When such partly immune people came into contact with others who had had no previous exposure to the germs, epidemics resulted in which up to 99 percent of the previously unexposed population was killed.
~ Jared Diamond
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Far more Native Americans died in bed from Eurasian germs than on the battlefield from European guns and swords.
~ Jared Diamond
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It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
~ Jared Diamond
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If disease is an expression of individual life under unfavorable conditions, then epidemics must be indicative of mass disturbances of mass life.
~ Tracy Kidder
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ONE OF the traditional applications of Chöd in Tibet was working with outer demons of disease and epidemics. Those practicing Chöd would give form to demons by practicing the ritual in frightening places where there were diseased corpses, such as cemeteries and charnel grounds. Once they felt the terrifying demons had arrived, instead of fighting them, the practitioners would imagine their own bodies transformed into nectar that fed the demons until they were completely sated.
~ Unknown
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You could literally halt epidemics in their tracks with this one remedy," he said. He flashed two fingers up in a peace sign, then slowly rotated them downward till they were scissoring through space. The Running Man. "So simple," he said. "Just move your legs. Because if you don't think you were born to run, you're not only denying history. You're denying who you are.
~ Christopher McDougall
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Podríamos, literalmente, poner freno a las epidemias con este único remedio —me dijo. Levantó dos dedos haciendo el signo de la paz, luego los giró lentamente hacia abajo y empezó a moverlos como si estuvieran trotando en el espacio. El Hombre Corredor. —Así de sencillo —dijo— solo moviendo las piernas. Porque si no creemos que hemos nacido para correr, no solo estamos negando la historia, estamos negando lo que somos.
~ Christopher McDougall
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The selflessness and dedication shown by many Greek doctors can be seen not only in such works as the Epidemics, but also in, for example, Thucydides' account of the plague at Athens (II, 47ff.) – where he notes the high incidence of mortality from the disease among the doctors who attempted to treat it.
~ Hippocrates
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In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
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During epidemics, the rich have nearly always outsurvived the poor. In some cases they've even benefited
~ Howard Bloom
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during the last century doctors have affected epidemics no more profoundly than did priests during earlier times. Epidemics came and went, imprecated by both but touched by neither. They are not modified any more decisively by the rituals performed in medical clinics than by those customary at religious shrines
~ Ivan Illich
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Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.
~ Alan Huffman
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