Quotes About Epidemic

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic.

But the disease that erupted in 684 was a true pandemic,

No one thinks of it as an epidemic. It's just the cost of doing business. The cost of living our lives. Haden's syndrome has become that now. A chronic disease of our nation, and of the planet.

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

Sugar is responsible for a lot of deaths. Arguably more than crack cocaine.

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Correctional officers, who lack resources for caring for the elderly, are also systematically hostile to providing medical treatment of prisoners, even though "the graying of the prison population has become a national epidemic afflicting states around the country—from California to Missouri to Florida.

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

The other naturally occurring viruses, like ebola, are not durable enough to generate a runaway epidemic.

Such as the Dancing Plague of 1518, where, over the course of a month, 400 people in Strasbourg danced themselves to the point of collapse—and in some cases death—for no understandable reason. No music was even playing.

Le tabac a provoqué 100 millions de morts au XXe siècle.

By the time Gorbachev came to power, alcoholism had reached epidemic proportions. Official studies showed that 70 percent of all crimes were related to alcohol. Drink was blamed for widespread absenteeism at work, a sharp increase in the divorce rate, and a dramatic drop in male life expectancy.

As if the pandemic weren't tragic enough, in the decade that followed, a million people came down with a serious Parkinson's-like disease termed "encephalitis lethargica," the subject of the book and movie Awakenings.232 Some researchers now consider this epidemic of neurological disease to be "almost certainly" a direct consequence of viral damage to the brains of survivors.

This may help explain why sugary drinks have been blamed as perhaps the single largest driver of the obesity epidemic,4856 accounting for at least one-fifth of the weight gained between 1977 and 2007 in the United States.4857 By the year 2000, Americans were drinking an estimated 190 calories a day of sweetened beverages.4858

Obesity may simply be a normal response to an abnormal environment.

Drug overdoses are today the number one cause of accidental death in the United States as a result of America's historic addiction and overdose epidemic.* Overdose deaths rose from 17,415 in 2000 to 93,330 in 2020, a 536 percent increase.30 Significantly more people die of drug overdoses today than of homicide (13,927 in 2019) or car accidents (36,096 in 2019).31 The overdose crisis is worse in San Francisco than in other cities.

In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes

In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes. Now, part of the reason for this is that we've invested a huge amount in nuclear deterrents. But we've actually invested very little in a system to stop an epidemic. We're not ready for the next epidemic.

Myxomatosis,

tuberculosis was then responsible for one in seven of all European deaths.

Today, there is a drug and alcohol abuse epidemic in this country. And no one is safe from it-not you, not me and certainly not our children, because this epidemic has their names written on it.

The consequences of an ungrateful spirit are not as readily seen as, say, those of a contagious disease. But they are no less deadly. Western civilization has fallen prey to an epidemic of ingratitude. Like a poisonous vapor, this subtle sin is polluting our lives, our homes, our churches, and our culture.

Unlike war or famine or natural disasters such as hurricanes or earthquakes during which people can gather together, an epidemic is a collective catastrophe that must be experienced separately.

helping the public grasp during the early part of the epidemic what is likely to happen later is essential. But this is also one of the reasons it's so difficult to sound the alarm. If we say that many people will be sick and that our world will be changed "soon," people will look around and conclude that everything seems normal enough, so no interventions are necessary, thank you very much. And it seems normal the next day too, so the Cassandras are seen as merely alarmists.