“If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.” IfsShouldHas BeensCountryDoneBigsCareMinesShould HaveSpreadHealth CareShould Have BeenPublic HealthRetrospectHaitiRebukeCholeraWildfiresCanaries Author:Paul Farmer
“War, to sane men at the present day, begins to look like an epidemic insanity, breaking out here and there like the cholera or influenza, infecting men's brains instead of their bowels.” MenLooksWarBrainInsanitySaneHere And ThereEpidemicsPresent DayCholeraBowelsInfluenza Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
“Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.” SchoolSouthMedicalAsiaLaboratoryEpidemicsSweepingCholeraMedical SchoolSoutheast AsiaSouth AsiaEast AsiaMedical Education Author:Peter Agre
“The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.” MenHas BeensHandsMightScienceNamesMastersCuriosityVariousIntellectExpectedDoctrineBeing TrueProvokingPlagueDominionHegelCholeraIncompatibilityBubonic Plague Author:Wilfred Trotter