Quotes About Prevention

Well, in my world, our world, there are too many guns and too many bad things happen because of them." Pippin

If you smoke cigarettes, take the advice of a dead man and stop immediately.

A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally

ONE DAY THERE WILL COME AN EPIDEMIC

Has anything bad ever happened in YOUR life? Anything bad that could have been stopped, if only someone had been paying better attention?...And you, Kanan? Is there something bad that could have been prevented, if someone had been watching over you?...EVERYBODY'S got something like that.

Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?

What's the most dangerous animal that has ever lived? Half the human beings who have ever died, perhaps as many as 45 billion people, have been killed by female mosquitoes (the males only bite plants).

Desperate efforts were being made to protect troops from the disease, or at least prevent complications. Germicidal solutions were sprayed into the mouths and noses of troops. Soldiers were ordered to use germicidal mouthwash and to gargle twice a day. Iodine in glycerin was tried in an attempt to disinfect mouths. Vaseline containing menthol was used in nasal passages, mouths washed with liquid albolene.

The study of epidemic disease is, of course, a prime focus of public health.

When the Washington Post asked Tom Frieden, then head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, what scared him the most, what kept him up at night, he replied, "The biggest concern is always for an influenza pandemic . . . [It] really is the worst-case scenario.

Other recommendations are generally simple and obvious: for example, keeping sick children home from school—which is standard behavior—and having sick adults stay home from work—which is not standard behavior

Royal Copeland, head of the New York City health department, and the port health officer jointly stated there was "not the slightest danger of an epidemic" because the disease seldom attacks "a well-nourished people." (Even had he been right, a study by his own health department had just concluded that 20 percent of city schoolchildren were malnourished.) He took no action whatsoever to prevent the spread of infection.

In fact, the virus can remain infectious on a hard surface for days.)

They knew so little. So little. They knew only that isolation worked. The New York State Training School for Girls had quarantined itself, even requiring people delivering supplies to leave them outside. It had had no cases.

In 1753 James Lind conducted a pioneering controlled experiment among British sailors and demonstrated that scurvy could be prevented by eating limes—ever since, the British have been called "limeys.

There is a direct correlation between education, stable families and incarceration and crime.

Obesity is a prison; in the US we spend more to treat type 2 diabetes each year than is spent on education.

I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people.

Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

If you drill, there's going to be a spill. It's axiomatic.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.