Quotes About Disease

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.

Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.

We all want to see a world where a preventable and treatable disease no longer takes lives or prevents women and girls from attending school or work because they have to care for ill relatives.

I'm not cured, but the HIV is asleep deep in my body.

HIV is not a gay or straight disease. It's a young people's disease, unfortunately.

I'm hoping I don't get Alzheimer's.

AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion.

Cancer is just a horrible disease.

The world faces enormous human development and environmental challenges, from poverty and disease to food security and climate change.

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta.

Trascendencia, enfermedad propiamente europea.

I think she's sick, and I think what she has is contagious

I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions.

The next week both small pox and the bloody flux began to go through the camp. General Washington maintained that the flux came from drinking new cider. But the cider-drinking continued, and so for that matter did the flux, which is a terrible death, the bowels emptying out one's life in bloody spasms. I

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.

Basically, plague comes in three recognized forms. There's bubonic plague, which is when you have buboes or swellings in the groin and axilla. Then there's pneumonic plague, when the bacilli are localized in the lungs – and septicemic plague, when the blood is infected.

bubonic plague is mostly carried by fleas which have bitten plague-ridden rodents, and then accidentally bite people. It isn't a human disease at all, and humans only get caught up in the cycle by mistake.

If you're suffering from pneumonic plague, you only have to cough in someone's face, and they'll almost certainly catch it. It's the sputum. Plague bacilli can stay alive in dried sputum for up to three months.