Quotes About Infections

I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

Liver dysfunction can run in families, like the iron-overload disease hemochromatosis. It can be caused by infections that can lead to liver cancer, or it can stem from drugs—most often inadvertent or intentional overdoses of Tylenol.4 The most common causes, however, are drink and food: alcoholic liver disease and fatty liver disease.

most infections happened at the market, perhaps due to a combination of crowded interspecies mixing and the immunosuppressive effect of stress.39

Eye infections were always worse in winter when everyone crowded together and the fires smoked.

By 2009, almost a hundred million doses of the pneumococcal vaccine had been given to American children. As a consequence, the incidence of pneumococcal disease has decreased dramatically.37 Far fewer children now get meningitis, pneumonia, and bloodstream infections caused by pneumococcus.