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Quotes About Infection

Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
~ William Shakespeare
Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.
~ Epictetus
Give me something about bacteria. Give me something that won't make me feel so inferior
~ William Saroyan
One pain is lessened by another's anguish. ... Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of the old will die.
~ William Shakespeare
Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood.
~ William Shakespeare
I'll beat thee, but I should infect my hands.
~ William Shakespeare
Some viruses don't actually harm the system itself, but all of them cause network slowdowns due to the heavy network traffic caused by the virus replication
~ Unknown
Island, off the coast of Scotland, remained infected with anthrax spores for forty years after biological warfare tests were carried out there in the 1940s.
~ Chuck Missler
almost universally recognized as a developmental disorder, multiply caused: genetic predisposition, pre- or postnatal viral infection, chromosomal damage, biological agents still unknown.
~ Unknown
They did not, however, infect the air as the Sudanese sun dried them up like mummies; all had the hue of gray parchment, and were so much alike that the bodies of the Europeans, Egyptians, and negroes could not be distinguished from each other.
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
Being infected, being a vampire, it' s always you. Maybe it' s more you than ever before. It' s you as you always were, deep down inside.
~ Holly Black
If one of the people who'd gone Cold drank human blood, the infection mutated. It killed the host and then raised them back up again, Colder than before. Cold through and through, forever and ever.
~ Holly Black
Winter made sure he got in before his sister, positioning himself in the middle like some kind of chaperone—as if, when the infection kicked back into high gear, Aidan was going to care whom he attacked. Not to mention that Aidan liked boys just fine anyway.
~ Holly Black
A fly buzzed over her shoulder making her think of the bodies inside, at the way the flies would be landing on them, at the opalescent maggots that would hatch and tunnel, multiplying endlessly, spreading like an infection until black flies covered the room in a shifting carpet, until all anyone could hear was the whirring of their glassy wings.
~ Holly Black
Money spread like germs, get sick na.
~ Lil Wayne
That was what he'd seen in this girl, a beauty that allowed him to perceive the waste and blight infecting the word...it was as if she'd experienced life's hardness and cruelties, yet had remained somehow untarnished by them. How was it possible?
~ Unknown
For covid-19, we can think of risk through three key variables: proximity, activity and time. The highest-risk scenario is if you are in close proximity with someone who is infected, in an indoor space, for an extended period of time.
~ Leana S. Wen
Astonishingly, in spite of decades of research, there is no agreed theory of cancer, no explanation for why, inside almost all healthy cells, there lurks a highly efficient cancer subroutine that can be activated by a variety of agents - radiation, chemicals, inflammation and infection.
~ Paul Davies
Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls. Our parents thought it had to do with our music, our godlessness, or the loosening of morals regarding sex we hadn't even had.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Something sick at the heart of the country had infected the girls.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Her suicide, from this perspective, was seen as a kind of disease infecting those close at hand. In the bathtub, cooking in the broth of her own blood, Cecilia had released an aiborne virus which the other girls, even in coming to save her, had contracted.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
One time we attended a child with a rotting leg, covered with wrinkled brown skin, from which a bloody yellow pus oozed. The stench from the leg was so strong that even Olga had to open the door every few moments and let in a draft of fresh air. All day long I stared at the gangrenous leg while the child alternately sobbed and fell asleep.
~ Jerzy Kosi?ski
Better to feel the pain now, my dad had told me that day I'd fallen off my bike, than suffer the infection later.
~ Jess Lourey
It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.
~ Ann Veneman