Epidemic Quotes - page 4

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease. (Laura Ziskin)
I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic. View quote
Michael Specter
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. View quote
Michael Specter
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic. View quote
Nathan Wolfe
If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease. View quote
Patrick Soon-Shiong
We must continue our fight to ensure that Federal, State, and local authorities have the resources and support necessary to combat this growing epidemic. This is a top priority for me and many of my colleagues here in Congress. View quote
Ron Lewis
As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death. View quote
Richard Carmona
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic. View quote
Shereen El Feki
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue. View quote
Sarah Brady
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the 'Let's Move' campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources. (Thomas Vilsack)
I guess growing up I realized that there is really this huge epidemic in a city like Los Angeles, and many other cities, where they put down thousands upon thousands of animals every day. View quote
Will Estes
Thimerosal is a controversial mercury based (sic) vaccine preservative that research scientists and vaccine safety advocates have connected to the epidemic of brain disorders in children. View quote
Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.
At the Petrin telegraph station, religion broke out like an epidemic. For no earthly reason, all the telegraph operators on duty were sending out ecstatic messages to the whole world, a sort of new gospel saying that God is coming back down to earth to redeem it ... View quote
Karel Čapek
The "need to know" syndrome had reached epidemic proportions within the U. S. government, all the way to top including the Presidents of the United States. View quote
Newton Lee
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling. View quote
Jonas Salk
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World. View quote
Jared Diamond
The country's 24 hour political pundit perpetual panic conflictinator did not cause our problems but its existence makes solving them that much harder. The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore unseen or they can use that magnifying glass to light ants on fire and then perhaps host a week of shows on the sudden, unexpected dangerous flaming ant epidemic. If we amplify everything we hear nothing. View quote
Jon Stewart
The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. View quote
Ashley Judd
We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem - a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services. (Jenny McCarthy)
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform. View quote
Jenny McCarthy
Every day in the United States, seventeen children are killed by gunfire. That's about 6,000 children each year who are killed by guns, as compared, for example, with about 3,000 a year who died at the height of the polio epidemic of the 1950s. We rose up as a society to fight against polio. Why do we not act more forcefully to halt today's even greater scourge? View quote
Jimmy Carter
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally. View quote
Rachel Cusk
Deregulation created this epidemic of greed which according to the rules of capitalism was OK. Beyond that there was criminal behaviour. There have been no repercussions and it's hard to make your peace with. View quote
Brad Pitt