Quotes About Virus

One little piece of misinformation can break down communication between people, causing every person it touches to become infected and contagious to others. Imagine that every single time others gossip to you, they insert a computer virus into your mind, causing you to think a little less clearly every time. Then imagine that in an effort to clean up your own confusion and get some relief from the poison, you gossip and spread these viruses to someone else.

Once again, this poisonous virus is what the Toltecs called the mitote, the chaos of a thousand different voices all trying to talk at once in the mind.

Cuando contemplamos el mundo a través de un virus informático, resulta fácil justificar incluso el comportamiento más cruel. No somos conscientes de que el mal uso de nuestras palabras nos hace caer más profundamente en el infierno.

My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything except one single goal...

Attention to how media messages address the virus, its transmission and risk varied significantly across types of coverage and by the nation that produces it,

La soledad es algo que sólo existe en la mente, no fuera de ella, y, que, como un virus, es incapaz de sobrevivir sin un anfitrión que lo acoja.

Could Denny have possibly appreciated the subjective nature of loneliness, which something nature of loneliness, which is something exist only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host.

Too often new initiatives coming into a bank are perceived culturally as a threat because of the change it forces, and the bank reacts like an immune system attacking a virus.

Lyc-V is a jealous virus. It exterminates all other invaders with extreme prejudice.

I am the mom of two wonderful millennial young women who are bright and hardworking, and I will tell you what I told them: They are the core group that will stop this virus. They are the group that communicates successfully, independent of picking up a phone. They intuitively know how to contact each other without being in large social gatherings.

If you don't vaccinate your child, it's not only your child that is at risk. It's also other children, including other children who, for medical reasons, can't be vaccinated.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

The insights provided by the model overturned the prevailing view that the virus was lying dormant in the body; in fact, it was in a raging battle with the immune system every minute of every day. With the new understanding that calculus helped provide, HIV infection has been transformed from a near-certain death sentence to a manageable chronic disease—at least for those with access to combination-drug therapy.

For the average home-user, anti-virus software is a must.

Because of this mysterious virus from China, Broadway was closing.33 All of Broadway. Not just one theater or ten theaters, as in a free society in which business owners make choices based on individual risk. All of Broadway, in one iconic, sweeping, Soviet-style, top-down gesture.

The virus and the vaccine were just the stimuli. What had really been accomplished was the breaking of America.

Human rhinoviruses may help train our immune systems not to overreact to minor triggers, instead directing their assaults to real threats. Perhaps we should not think of colds as ancient enemies but as wise old tutors.

It was the first time anyone had found a virus of a virus. It was yet another thing that ought not to exist.

A virus does not reproduce by copying its own genes and dividing in two. Instead, it invades a host cell.

When the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, those laboratory stocks remained. All it would take to reverse that eradication was for someone to accidentally set the virus loose.

Terrorists might even try to use it as a biological weapon. Making matters worse, people were no longer getting smallpox vaccines, and so what immunity the public had to the virus was waning.

In a study of fifty patients with SARS, they discovered a virus growing in two of them. The virus belonged to a group called coronaviruses, which includes species that can cause colds and the stomach flu. Peiris and his colleagues sequenced the genetic material in the new virus and then searched for matching genes in the other patients. They found a match in forty-five of them.

HIV infections, for example, have declined in the United States, but fifty thousand Americans still acquire the virus every year.

Those immune cells then make us feel awful. They create inflammation that triggers a scratchy feeling in the throat and leads to the production of a lot of mucus around the site of the infection. In order to recover from a cold, we have to wait not only for the immune system to wipe out the virus but also to calm itself down.