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Quotes About Measles

This is why the chances of contracting measles can be higher for a vaccinated person living in a largely unvaccinated community than they are for an unvaccinated person living in a largely vaccinated community.
~ Eula Biss
Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.
~ Leigh Brackett
Love is sentimental measles.
~ Charles Kingsley
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.
~ Josh Billings
I know my Germany. This is a temporary illness, something like measles, which will pass as soon as the economic situation improves. Do you really believe the compatriots of Goethe and Schiller, Kant and Beethoven will fall for this rubbish?
~ Fred Uhlman
I get a call when I'm in Thailand at 3 A.M. from my rep saying, 'Clint Eastwood wants you to star in his new movie,' and I said, 'You guys are hilarious. What, does Jesse Plemons have the measles? What the hell's going on?' It was a total shock, but obviously we were all aggressively elated that this was a real thing.
~ Paul Walter Hauser
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.
~ Jared Diamond
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
~ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
California officials want to contain a measles outbreak that originated in Disneyland last month. They are in luck because everyone who is exposed to it is still in line at Space Mountain.
~ Conan O'Brien
Measles vaccination shares some crucial features with the thermostat system but differs in important respects. A measles-epidemic model without vaccination will be different but recognizable as a member of the family. And
~ Thomas C. Schelling
Models often overlap. The measles epidemic is usually a critical-mass process.4 A succession of epidemics, with intervening periods in which the pool of susceptibles renews itself, corresponds to a cyclical model.
~ Thomas C. Schelling
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
~ Erma Bombeck
Measles may not spread as fast as erroneous sound bites and tweets, but they both have the potential to cause a great amount of damage.
~ Bill Foster
SOUTH RICHMOND was a neighborhood of mouse holes, lace curtains, Sears catalogs, measles epidemics, baloney sandwiches—and men who knew more about the carburetor than they knew about the clitoris.
~ Tom Robbins
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
~ Douglas Jerrold
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
~ Nevil Shute
An epidemic of measles broke out, and Dr. Moses Greeley Parker worried that if the operators succumbed, they would be hard to replace. He suggested identifying each telephone by number. He also suggested listing the numbers in an alphabetical directory of subscribers.
~ James Gleick
You'd see little shallow graves, lined up, one after the other - babies. That's what happens when measles goes through a nutritionally deficient community. It's a horrible disease, and it spreads incredibly efficiently.
~ Seth Berkley
States should require vaccinations for communicable diseases, like measles and the mumps. But you can't catch HPV if an infected schoolmate coughs on you or shares your juice box at lunch. Whether or not girls get vaccinated against HPV is a decision for parents and physicians, not state governments.
~ Phil Gingrey
Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind.
~ Walter Isaacson
The mission was founded in 1776 to proselytize the Indians, 5000 of whom succumbed to a measles epidemic brought by the same people who came to save them from their heathen ways.
~ Lee Goldberg
His physicians did not know it, but an attack of measles, such as the one from which the king had recovered a year earlier, serves to suppress the victim's resistance to tuberculosis.
~ Helen Castor
At the moment I would be less afraid of measles than of the revolutionaries.
~ Helen Rappaport
Be careful if you go to Disneyland. There's an outbreak of measles. They have traced the disease to Donald Duck running around without his pants.
~ letterman david ii