Infection Quotes - Page 4

• We live longer and healthier lives than ever before. Animal research has improved the treatment of infections, helped with immunisation, improved cancer treatment and had a big impact on managing heart disease, brain disorders, arthritis and transplantation.

  Robert Winston

  Cancer, Heart, Animal

  "The shame of our silence" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2006.

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

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Funny, Dog, Kissing

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• Medicine, which I wouldn't be without, has also been a force for... less good. For example, if you look at our mishandling of the immune system, using antibiotics in children and avoiding infection, we've certainly increased the risk of asthma.

  Robert Winston

  Children, Medicine, Risk

  "My bright idea: Robert Winston". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2010.

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• This industry should behave like a mother whose child has just run out in front of a car. But instead of clasping the child to them, they start punishing the child. Like you don't dare get a cold. How dare you get a cold! I mean, the executives can get colds and stay home forever and phone it in, but how dare you, the actor, get a cold or a virus. You know, no one feels worse than the one who's sick. I sometimes wish, gee, I wish they had to act a comedy with a temperature and a virus infection.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Mother, Running, Children

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• For like a poisonous breath over the fields, like a mass of locusts over Egypt, so the swarm of excuses is a general plaque, a ruinous infection among men, that eats off the sprouts of the Eternal.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Men, Egypt, Fields

  Soren Kierkegaard (2013). “The Wisdom of Kierkegaard”, p.140, Simon and Schuster

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• Better ways to diagnose, treat and prevent E. coli 0157:H7 infections are badly needed.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Way, Treats, Needed

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• With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.

  Eve Ensler

  Hurt, Ocean, Oil

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• Staph lives on skin. Thats the reason why many infections start as a boil.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Skins, Reason Why, Reason

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• The majority of new infections in America are among young gay and bisexual men of color, and the full resources that could be brought to bear simply are not.

  Cleve Jones

  Gay, Bisexual, Men

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• A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Mean, Pandemics, World

  "H5N1 - Killer Flu". "Wide Angle" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. September 20, 2005.

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• Today we know the best way to prevent the spread of Ebola infection is through public health measures.

  Anthony S. Fauci

  Ebola, Today, Way

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• The fifty trillion cells in your body are constantly talking to each other as they keep your heart beating, digest your food, eliminate toxins, protect you from infection and disease, and carry out the countless other functions that keep you alive. While these processes may seem out of your conscious control, hundreds of studies have shown that nothing holds more power over the body than the mind.

  Deepak Chopra

  Heart, Cells, Talking

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• Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

  William Osler

  Real, Suffering, Disease

  St. Bartholomew's Hospital Reports 52: 39 (1916)

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• Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Sick, Guy

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.310, Hachette UK

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• Over the whole earth- this infinitely small globe that possesses all we know of sunshine and bird song- an unfamiliar blight is creeping: man- man, who has become at last a planetary disease and who would, if his technology yet permitted, pass this infection to another star.

  Loren Eiseley

  Song, Stars, Sunshine

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• Bad dental hygiene can lead to respiratory infections and an increased risk for heart disease and strokes.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Heart, Hygiene, Risk

  "For Name's Sake". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: "Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays.

  Bill Gates

  War, People, Waiting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Periodontal bacteria can easily slip into the bloodstream and cause infection elsewhere in the body.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Body, Bacteria, Causes

  "For Name's Sake". Live Chat, www.slate.com. January 20, 2016.

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• Avoid activities outdoor. If you like to take an afternoon nap sleep under bed net. So these are measures that can be done to minimize [the] chance of infection [with Zika virus].

  Margaret Chan

  Sleep, Naps, Bed

  "WHO: Birth Defect Linked To Zika Virus Is 'Public Health Emergency'". www.wbur.org. February 1, 2016.

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• Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories arent often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

  Jill Lepore

  Epidemics, Order, Stories

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• Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases.

  Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

  Country, Zero, Ebola

  "World Health Organization Declares Guinea Ebola-Free". "Word of Mouth" with Renee Montagne, nhpr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• He [Ryan white] spoke to me that my life was out of order. My life was a mess. I had no values anymore. And he was so stoic with his infection. He wasn't bitter. He wasn't angry. He just was a kid. He wanted to go to school and play football, drive his car. And he had no bitterness about him.

  Elton John

  Football, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In many parts of the world, women and girls are especially vulnerable to HIV/AIDS because they lack control over most aspects of their life. Cultural expectations and gender roles expose women and girls to violence, sexual exploitation and far greater risk for infection.

  Hillary Clinton

  Girl, Expectations, Risk

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• I don't know of any neuropsychiatric disorder other than an infection that has been cured. But the goal is to improve the quality of life of people who experience autistic symptomology and I just think we will make progress on that.

  Gerald Fischbach

  Thinking, People, Goal

  "Big Think Panel Discussion on Autism". Interview with Susan Wilczynski, bigthink.com.

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• Medicine allows people to live who would otherwise die, so antibiotics will let people survive infections that they might be otherwise very vulnerable to and even little things might make a big difference, so I wear eyeglasses because my eyes aren't particularly strong, before there were eyeglasses someone at my age would probably not be good for much.

  Carl Zimmer

  Strong, Eye, Medicine

  Source: bigthink.com

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