Quotes About Disease

Spain actually had few cases before May, but the country was neutral during the war. That meant the government did not censor the press, and unlike French, German, and British newspapers—which printed nothing negative, nothing that might hurt morale—Spanish papers were filled with reports of the disease, especially when King Alphonse XIII fell seriously ill.

The disease soon became known as "Spanish influenza" or "Spanish flu," very likely because only Spanish newspapers were publishing accounts of the spread of the disease that were picked up in other countries.

Influenza is an RNA virus. So are HIV and the coronavirus.

They had not given quinine or typhoid vaccine to influenza victims in the wild hope that because it worked against malaria or typhoid it might work against influenza.

and in contrast to earlier stage of epidemic disease now affects many schoolchildren;

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.

After it defeats an infection, specialized white cells (called "memory T cells") and antibodies that bind to the antigen remain in the body. If any invader carrying the same antigen attacks again, the immune system responds far more quickly than the first time. When the immune system can respond so quickly that a new infection will not even cause symptoms, people become immune to the disease.

Between June 1 and August 1, 200,825 British soldiers in France, out of two million, were hit hard enough that they could not report for duty even in the midst of desperate combat. Then the disease was gone. On August 10, the British command declared the epidemic over. In Britain itself on August 20, a medical journal stated that the influenza epidemic "has completely disappeared.

helped lead to a new conception of disease as something with an identity of its own, an objective existence.

This disease is no joke, to be made light of, but a terrible calamity pg 36

The lowest estimate of the pandemic's worldwide death toll is twenty-one million, in a world with a population less than one-third today's. That estimate comes from a contemporary study of the disease and newspapers have often cited it since, but it is almost certainly wrong. Epidemiologists today estimate that influenza likely caused at least fifty million deaths worldwide, and possibly as many as one hundred million.

The effects of infantile instruction are, like those of syphilis, never completely cured.

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

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

I am a medical scientist, not a practical physician. I think it's very upfront. I am a doctor. I have long experience with heart disease.

Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Doubt is an old disease. Faith is an old medicine. Compassion is an old doctor. Concern is an old nurse.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Depression is like a slow poison which kills you from inside. It is a disease that has no cure, but it heals with some time. It makes a person so lonely, that the person doesn't want to live anymore.