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Quotes About Infection

Technology has aided in serious advancements so that HIV detection tests now have near-perfect results. And those tests can detect HIV in the blood an average of nine to 11 days post-infection.
~ Mike Quigley
The one thing about 'Beautiful Creatures,' 'The Host' and 'The Mortal Instruments,' which are all well-made movies, is that they were all infected with a dreadful sincerity.
~ Mark Waters
The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
~ Richard Preston
Pericles was among its victims. It was the first pandemic in recorded history. Thucydides, who himself became infected
~ Roderick Beaton
Epidemics stop only when the microbes get disgusted with their toxins.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
This one adult could have died from AIDS with little notice....He could have transmitted the virus to his wife and offspring. His infected wife (or girlfriend) could have given birth in a Swedish barrack to a child who was HIV infected but seemingly healthy. Unsterilized needles and syringes could have spread the virus from child to child.
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Love is a kind of infection, possessing then releasing you.
~ Amos Oz
Most cancers are the result of repeatedly suppressing mild symptoms of illness such as a cold, pain, infection, or headache and treating them as if they were real diseases. The
~ Andreas Moritz
ANTHELMINTHICK  (ANTHELMI'NTHICK)   adj.[   against, and eklimho, a worm.]That which kills worms.
~ Samuel Johnson
tetanus, and neither
~ Sandra Brown
The end of the world had taught Rachel Wheeler many lessons, but the most recent one was this: Running for your life was a bitch when you only had one leg. She tightened the moist, stained bandana that kept the worst of the leaking to a minimum, then hobbled forward another ten feet. The wild dog that had bitten her could have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and
~ Scott Nicholson
After all, evil was a kind of poison, an infection of the soul.
~ John Connolly
multibacillary and paucibacillary
~ John Connolly
Duplicated: Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; ... (Repeated twice)
~ John Donne
That this world's general sickness doth not lie In any humour, or one certain part; But as thou sawest it rotten at the heart, Thou seest a hectic fever hath got hold Of the whole substance, not to be controlled, And that thou hast but one way, not to admit The world's infection, to be none of it.
~ John Donne
Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.
~ Elena Ferrante
They were more severely infected than the men, because while men were always getting furious, they calmed down in the end; women, who appeared to be silent, acquiescent, when they were angry flew into a rage that had no end.
~ Elena Ferrante
They do not want to protect the people from the disease, but inject apprehension in the minds of the population by tactfully and maliciously writing/showing the symptoms of virus infection and thus do the promotion of vaccines
~ Anuj Somany
If you got maggots in your brain, everything you think is gonna be rotten.
~ George Clinton
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Covid is likely to persist once its pandemic phase has passed and circulate each winter alongside the flu. Even after more of us contract coronavirus infection and develop immunity to it or even after an effective vaccine arrives, some people will still get very sick.
~ Scott Gottlieb
Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
~ Florence Nightingale
That's the problem with bacterial meningitis: it progresses really fast. You think you have the flu, and they say within 15 hours it's severely deadly - for sure within the first 24 hours - but even the first 15 hours.
~ Amy Purdy
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
~ Wallace Stevens