Quotes About Epidemic

During the HIV epidemic, newspapers had questioned public health pronouncements and warned against government overreach. As early as June 1983, the New York Times had published an opinion piece titled "AIDS and Civil Liberties," citing the "danger that the judicial and political systems will fall prey to the irrational demands of a frightened public and impose groundless and onerous regulations that result in the widespread loss of freedom."39

It's more common to ignore the epidemic of punitive parenting and focus instead on the occasional example of permissiveness—sometimes even to the point of pronouncing an entire generation spoiled. It's revealing, and even somewhat amusing, that similar alarms probably have been raised about every generation throughout recorded history.

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Neanderthals might think differently than we do. They could even be more intelligent than us. When the time comes to deal with an epidemic or getting off the planet, it's conceivable that their way of thinking could be beneficial.

When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

underscores the fact that parents' fears are well founded. The numbers don't lie, and there are too many of them to ignore or dismiss as random static or propaganda from any one interest group. The overindulgence that's epidemic

Well-being is like a virus. One self-assured person at home in this world can infect dozens of others. Wouldn't you like to see an epidemic of infectious well-being?

The Semliki Forest agent. Crimean-Congo. Sindbis. O'nyongnyong. Nameless São Paulo. Marburg. Ebola Sudan. Ebola Zaire. Ebola Reston.

the family of filoviruses comprised Marburg along with two types of a virus called Ebola. The Ebolas were named Ebola Zaire and Ebola Sudan. Marburg was the mildest of the three filovirus sisters. The worst of them was Ebola Zaire. The kill rate in humans infected with Ebola Zaire is nine out of ten. Ninety percent of the people who come down with Ebola Zaire die of it. Ebola Zaire is a slate wiper in humans.

Are you worried about a species-threatening event?" He stared at me. "What the hell do you mean by that?" "I mean a virus that wipes us out." "Well, I think it could happen. Certainly it hasn't happened yet. I'm not worried. More likely it would be a virus that reduces us by some percentage. By thirty percent. By ninety percent.

Variola is now exotic to the human species, highly infective in humans, lethal, and difficult or impossible to cure. It is generally believed to be the most dangerous virus to the human species.

Man-made death became epidemic in the twentieth century because increasingly efficient killing technologies made the extreme exercise of national sovereignty pathological.

For at least one steam carmaker, the Stanley Motor Carriage Company of Newton, Massachusetts, that advantage was lost in 1914, when an epidemic of deadly hoof-and-mouth disease among New England farm animals led veterinary officials to shut down the many public watering troughs along eastern roads where steamers had rewatered.

So my two buildings are the funeral parlor and the doctor's house. But when I started finding stuff on Dr. Fuller, I started finding stuff about an epidemic, too. I mean, they called it an epidemic, but nobody knew what was causing it." "And when was this?" "Around nineteen hundred. The statistics were unbelievable, so many people died. And lots of them were children." Parker automatically grabbed a tissue off the nightstand and gave it to Ashley.

PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY, PLAGUEY!

diphtheria.

Os próprios exorcistas, às vezes, se tornavam vítimas de possessão, como acontecera em 1634, no convento ursulino de freiras em Loudun, na França. Dos quatro exorcistas jesuítas que tinham sido mandados para lidar com uma epidemia de possessão, três deles — os padres Lucas, Lactance e Tranquille —, além de serem possuídos, morreram logo depois, vítimas de um aparente ataque cardíaco causado por hiperatividade psicomotora ininterrupta:

Will the Next Big One be caused by a virus? Will the Next Big One come out of a rainforest or a market in southern China? Will the Next Big One kill 30 or 40 million people?

Then there was a new epidemic—of fear," said Dr. Sam Okware, Commissioner of Health Services, when I visited him in Kampala a month later. Among Dr. Okware's other duties, he served as chairman of the national Ebola virus task force. "That was the most difficult to contain," he said. "There was a new epidemic—of panic.

Others are new and inexplicably sporadic, claiming a few victims (as Hendra does) or a few hundred (Ebola) in this place or that, and then disappearing for years.