Quotes About Epidemic

Whereas in 2010 obesity and related illnesses killed about 3 million people, terrorists killed a total of 7,697 people across the globe,

In the Afro-Asian world from which the Spaniards came, the obsession for gold was indeed an epidemic.

In 2014 more than 2.1 billion people were overweight, compared to 850 million who suffered from malnutrition. Half of humankind is expected to be overweight by 2030.4 In 2010 famine and malnutrition combined killed about 1 million people, whereas obesity killed 3 million.5

while we cannot be certain that some new Ebola outbreak or an unknown flu strain won't sweep across the globe and kill millions, we will not regard it as an inevitable natural calamity. Rather, we will see it as an inexcusable human failure and demand the heads of those responsible

Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

We're in a situation now where weight and extreme weight and heart disease is the biggest killer in this country today.

If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health.

There is certainly a longstanding idea within western culture that civilization is only a thin veneer. As soon as something happens, say a war or a natural disaster or an epidemic like we're going through right now, the worst comes out in each of us.

One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

But "goin' fratin'" became epidemic, often with cigarettes or chocolate as "frau bait." "To frat" was a synonym for intercourse; non-fraternization was referred to as "non-fertilization." GIs argued that "copulation without conversation is not fraternization," and Patton advised, "Tell the men of Third Army that so long as they keep their helmets on they are not fraternizing

We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.

So Newark had the highest percentage of substandard housing of any American city: 7,097 units had no flush toilets; 28,795, no heaters. Twenty-eight babies died in a diarrhea epidemic in 1965, eighteen of them at City Hospital, which was also infested by bats.

A measles epidemic in Ireland (over 1,500 reported cases in 2000) has been blamed on Wakefield. Three children died. Fears of an epidemic in Scotland (where Wakefield once practiced medicine) and England were also fueled by Wakefield's claims. Cases of measles in England rose to a 20-year high following the collapse in MMR immunization rates.

Given the scale of issues like global warming and epidemic disease, we shouldn't underestimate the importance of a can-do attitude to science rather than a can't-afford-it attitude.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

We can say that the roots of the heroin epidemic are in Mexican soil, but opiates are always a response to pain. What is the pain in the heart of American society that sends us searching for a drug to lessen it, to dampen it?

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The most useful definition we have is that an epidemic is a severe local outbreak, while a pandemic is a global outbreak that makes people very sick, and spreads rapidly from a point of origin.

Antigenic shift generated the deadly 1918 influenza virus and the swine flu outbreak of 2009.

Today, influenza kills fewer than 0.1 percent of those who catch it. Nearly everyone recovers. In the 1918 pandemic most still recovered, but the death rate was twenty-five times greater. So many died in the U.S. that the average life expectancy in 1918 fell from fifty-one to thirty-nine years.

The factory owners in Germany have grown wealthy;--dysentery dissolves our bowels.

And even if you don't make a mistake, an opportunity will arise to blame you for something. Some misfortune, some disaster, some pestilence, perhaps a plague or an epidemic, will fall on humanity… Then your guilt will descend on you. You will not be blamed for having been unable to prevent the plague, but for being unable to remove its effects. You shall be to blame for everything. And then fires will be lit under stakes.