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“We are watching very closely to see how the disease associated with bird flu, when it hits humans, is evolving.”

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Author:David Nabarro

“We must never forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed. For what then matters is to bear witness to the uniquely human potential at its best, which is to transform a personal tragedy into a triumph, to turn one's predicament into a human achievement. When we are no longer able to change a situation-just think of an incurable disease such as inoperable cancer-we are challenged to change ourselves.”

Source: Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition

“As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.”

Humans Two Next Generations Childhood Disease Thirds Population Aids Quarters Plague Next Generation Hiv

Author:Larry Niven

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

“Challenge is the core and the mainspring of all human activity. If there's an ocean, we cross it; if there's a disease, we cure it; if there's a wrong, we right it; if there's a record, we break it; and finally, if there's a mountain, we climb it.”

Ifs Inspirational Humans Challenges Break Records Activity Mountain Disease Ocean Crosses Perseverance Core Cures Climbs Human Activity

Author:James Ramsey Ullman

“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.”

Should Humans May War Human Beings Break Planets Disease Environmental Climate Change Lifestyle Global Warming Fever Extremist Break Out

Author:Thomas Lovejoy