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Quotes About Outbreak

There are three different types of influenza viruses: A, B, and C. Type C rarely causes disease in humans. Type B does cause disease, but not epidemics. Only influenza A viruses cause epidemics or pandemics, an epidemic being a local or national outbreak, a pandemic a worldwide one.
~ John M. Barry
But the disease that erupted in 684 was a true pandemic,
~ Unknown
If we had to sum this new society up in a single word, we might describe it as feudal— but only if we were prepared for an outbreak of fainting fits among medieval historians. The
~ Unknown
The community had remained "remarkably healthy" during the family's stay, according to Dr. Peabody, except for one profitable outbreak of smallpox in a neighboring town.
~ Unknown
trees-even pine tree needles. Every seven to ten years, from May to mid July, there is an outbreak of gypsy caterpillars in the Northeast, where most of them live. In their last big outbreak, they gobbled the leaves off 13 million acres of trees and shrubs. Where to Find It Look for gypsy moth caterpillars on the ground during the day. They eat in trees all night, but by day, they drop down into litter around the tree.
~ Unknown
In a 2015 TED Talk, Bill Gates asserted, "If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Not missiles, but microbes
~ Unknown
K.G. Andersen et al., "The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2," Nature Medicine 2020; 26: 450–455; P. Zhou et al, "A Pneumonia Outbreak Associated with a New Coronavirus of Probable Bat Origin," Nature 2020; 579: 270–273.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
isolation of Uíge—might go some way to explain why the Angola Marburg outbreak failed to achieve what Ebola now has, the jump
~ Unknown
The Establishment Club was modelled on 'those wonderful Berlin cabarets which did so much to stop the rise of Hitler and prevent the outbreak of the Second World War'.
~ Peter Cook
the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.
~ Leviticus 13:30
On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine the infection, and if the scaly outbreak has not spread and there is no yellow hair in it, and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin,
~ Leviticus 13:32
On the seventh day the priest shall examine the scaly outbreak, and if it has not spread on the skin and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, the priest is to pronounce him clean. He must wash his clothes, and he will be clean.
~ Leviticus 13:34
If, however, the scaly outbreak spreads further on the skin after his cleansing,
~ Leviticus 13:35
the priest is to examine him, and if the scaly outbreak has spread on the skin, the priest need not look for yellow hair; the person is unclean.
~ Leviticus 13:36
If, however, in his sight the scaly outbreak is unchanged and black hair has grown in it, then it has healed. He is clean, and the priest is to pronounce him clean.
~ Leviticus 13:37