Quotes About Infections

#1. Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces.

Charles P. Gerba

#2. There are two infections running rampant. One is the Dragonscale, and the other is panic.

Joe Hill

#3. Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#4. Lyme disease is the most commonly reported tick-borne illness in the United States, and the incidence is growing rapidly. In 2009, the C.D.C. reported thirty-eight thousand cases, three times more than in 1991. Most researchers agree that the true number of infections is five to ten times higher.

Michael Specter

#5. I change my socks often, because I had bad bouts of athlete's foot fungus infections as a kid. I may be able to change socks less frequently and not get the fungus. But, I'd rather not run the test to determine just how infrequently I could change socks. I don't feel superstitious about it.

Bill Nye

#6. The passengers in our microbiome contain at least four million genes, and they work constantly on our behalf: they manufacture vitamins and patrol our guts to prevent infections; they help to form and bolster our immune systems, and digest food.

Michael Specter

#7. New and emerging infections keep coming back and the world needs a collective defense system, and that requires international cooperation and collaboration, in the name of global solidarity.

Margaret Chan

#8. Most people who are HIV positive are on drugs and that gets their viral load so low that it's harder to transmit it. Most new infections come from people who don't know they're infected.

Dale Peck

#9. Hospital-acquired infections are now killing more people every year in the United States than die from AIDS or cancer or car accidents combined - about 100,000.

Janine Benyus

#10. Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

David Hewson

#11. If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections ... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.

Newt Gingrich

#12. If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.

Ina May Gaskin

#13. We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?

Steven Pinker

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

Anthony Fauci

#15. A belly laugh increases the ability of your immune system to fight infections.

Elizabeth Taylor

#16. But if a human was to avoid all life-threatening diseases and infections and accidents, he - or she - should live to be a hundred and fifteen.

Jennifer Niven

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

Barbara Woodhouse

#18. The 2003 flu season started early in North America, with the first cases showing up in the fall. By Thanksgiving doctors were seeing the usual flu-related pneumonias. As always, the most severe cases resulted from secondary bacterial infections in flu-congested lungs.

Jessica Snyder Sachs

#19. Staph lives on skin. That's the reason why many infections start as a boil.

Anthony Fauci

#20. No doubt about it, allopathic medicine (the term used to describe conventional Western medicine) is superb at dealing with trauma and bacterial infections, but it is not nearly as effective as natural medicine at managing chronic pain, autoimmune disease, and degenerative conditions.

Marcellus A. Walker

#21. Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.

Lysa TerKeurst

#22. It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us!

Israelmore Ayivor

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

William Osler

#24. We must aim for a zero-tolerance approach to hospital-acquired infections; we have to be clear about who's in charge at ward level, so there's proper accountability, and we need to reduce the reliance on agency nursing staff.

Andrew Lansley

#25. Civilizations ... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

Harry G. Frankfurt

#26. By 2025, 70% of the population will live in cities; many of which will be densely overcrowded, increasing the odds of mass infections.

Anonymous

#27. I was a competitive swimmer as a teenager, only stopping when I got persistent ear infections. Every day was a 6 A.M. start to swim before lessons, then choir or dance classes after.

Ella Eyre

#28. I have spent too long with too many people who have lost loved ones to healthcare-associated infections not to be determined to act on this. There is no tolerable level of preventable infections. The only acceptable strategy is a zero-tolerance strategy.

Andrew Lansley

#29. 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

#30. Today, medical devices such as catheters and stethoscopes use silver, and every hospital in the western world uses silver sulfadiazine to prevent infections.

Robert Kiyosaki

#31. Three decades into this crisis, let us set our sights on achieving the "three zeros" zero new HIV infections, zero discrimination and zero AIDS-related deaths.

Ban Ki-moon

#32. Most of the infections linked to human cancers are common in human populations; they are ubiquitous. They were present during the whole human evolution process.

Harald Zur Hausen

#33. In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Selman Waksman

#34. Without this balance, a body's immune system will not have the desired response when faced with infection. These findings could aid the development and production of vaccines and lead to further research on how the body fights specific infections, such as HIV.

Bill Vaughan

#35. A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.

Thabo Mbeki

#36. Two empty hours were a sinus in which infections bred.

Jonathan Franzen

#37. I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

Ron Santo

#38. When my daughter Sabrina was 2 years old, the pediatrician told me it was time she quit using a pacifier because that could make her teeth crooked and even cause infections in her ears.

Thalia

#39. Hey, pharmacist here. Bodily fluids don't scare me. Neither do yeast infections or wild hair-remover rashes. He moved her hand and leaned down to give her a long hug.
He's hugging me.
Me.

Debra Anastasia

#40. Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to our fevers, our infections, our rapid, minute mutations, which take us toward death even as they evolve us, as a species, into some ill-defined future.

Lauren Slater

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

Mallory Ortberg

#42. Thinking about averting plane crashes in 1935, or stopping infections of central lines in 2003, or rescuing drowning victims today, I realized that the key problem in each instance was essentially a simple one, despite the number of contributing factors.

Atul Gawande

#43. The ordinary lunatic is generally a harmless, isolated case; since everyone sees that something is wrong with him, he is quickly taken care of. But the unconscious infections of groups of so-called normal people are more subtle and far more dangerous.

C. G. Jung

#44. The problem of chemotherapy of bacterial infections could be solved neither by the experimental medical research worker nor by the chemist alone, but only by the two together working in very close cooperation over many years.

Gerhard Domagk

#45. Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.

Peter C. Doherty

#46. Did you know the English wouldn't dream of putting olive oil on food? They use it for ear infections. Freddie told me."
"Yes, I've heard their cuisine hasn't evolved since the Middle Ages.

Glenn Haybittle

#47. Children are like fomites." What?" "Spreading infections everywhere they go.

Tess Gerritsen

#48. My strategy is to stop the assaults--to reduce the number of factors your immune system has to deal with by cleaning up your diet, healing your gut, lightening your toxic burden, treating your infections, and reducing your overall stress.

Amy Myers

#49. R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald.

David Quammen

#50. What really reinvigorated vaccines was Prevnar, the pneumococcal vaccine that prevents against meningitis and ear infections. Here was the first vaccine to cross the billion-dollar mark.

Paul A. Offit

#51. 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

#52. The tremendous acquisition of basic knowledge will allow a much more rational treatment of cancer, viral infections, degenerative diseases and, most importantly, mental diseases.

Gunter Blobel

#53. In today's world, new infections and diseases can spread across the country and even across the world in a matter of days, or even hours, making early detection critical.

John Linder

#54. The modern diet is grossly deficient in hundreds of important plant-derived immunity-building compounds which makes us highly vulnerable to viruses, infections and disease.

Joel Fuhrman