Quotes About Infectious

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

According to Princeton's Andrew Dobson, "Climate change is disrupting natural ecosystems in a way that is making life better for infectious diseases.

That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted.

Whereas HIV only in recent decades became infectious for humans, high risk papillomavirus types have in all likelihood been with us for millions of years, accompanying the human race since the early days of our evolution.

In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases.

And the last one is this hyperimmune response," said Brooks. Infectious diseases frequently kill by triggering an excessive immune-system response.

The 1960s epidemic of German measles is unique in the history of infectious diseases for doing the opposite. German measles helped to lift the repression of a sexually deviant practice—namely, abortion—and transform it into an honorable one.

Society is the atmosphere of souls; and we necessarily imbibe from it something which is either infectious or healthful.

On a day when you're not feeling so good, you put on a happy face, it's infectious - these things sound kind of corny and stupid, but this is our life.

It was like a disease. A Phoebe-Pace-inspired disease, this need to speak so much—to explain himself.

Optimism is infectious, and opportunity irresistible. Progress follows progress. Someone, even government, just has to get it started.

I've always been interested in pandemics, where they come from, how they arise, and the key feature which really fascinates me is that the biology of the bug is the least of it.

Laughter--an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features, and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious, and though intermittent, incurable.

The amateur has an infectious, contagious enthusiasm for golf and life.

Smiling is infectious, You can catch it like the flu. Someone smiled at me today, And I started smiling too.

The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

Sources: Wikipedia's entries on "Malaria," "Polio," "Cholera," "Typhoid fever," "Measles

The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch.

Madness, as anyone knows who has observed it at close quarters, is the more infectious the more sensitive the psyche of the person finding themselves in the proximity of the mad person.

That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first.

Contagiousness is an unexpected property of all kinds of things.

Epidemics are a function of the people who transmit infectious agents, the infectious agent itself, and the environment in which the infectious agent is operating.