“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.” ImportantModernBuildingDiseasePlantVulnerableDietsVirusesCompoundsInfectionImmunity Author:Joel Fuhrman
“Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.” PeopleMightMotivationalWalksEmotionGroupsOfficeDiseaseSpreadMoodFasterPanicSkepticismNegotiationVirusesContagiousBad Mood Author:Seth Godin
“The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.” NeedsYearsEndsPastHateSpeakCan DoIgnoranceDiseaseMiracleMedicineAidsIndifferenceAccomplishedOur SocietyVirusesOver The PastStigmaEpidemicsSpeaks OutCan Do SomethingMisinformationAids Epidemic Author:Elton John
“prejudice will always exist. So will sickness and disease, but that scarcely seems sufficient reason for telling our medical scientists to put on their hats, close up their laboratories, and give the spirochetes, bacilli and viruses a free hand.” GivingReasonHandsSeemsDiseaseScientistPrejudiceMedicalSufficientSicknessHatsLaboratoryViruses Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro
“When the AIDS epidemic broke, because I happened to be a science nerd and knew a lot about viruses and a lot about that virus at the time, I felt a moral obligation to go out and try to stem the fear and get out and explain to people what the disease was and how it worked.” PeopleTryingFeltMoralHappenedDiseaseAidsObligationBrokeStemNerdVirusesEpidemicsMoral ObligationAids Epidemic Author:Morgan Fairchild
“Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.” DiesDiseasePatternsSpreadVirusesEpidemics Author:Jill Lepore
“We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.” WellsUseGivenAnswersDiseaseFollowingStatementsTreatedBeing TruePreparationLecturesVirusesInfectionImmunityToxinsImmunizationTetanus Author:Jonas Salk
“There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.” DifferentFactsBodyCausesCommonDiseaseBlockDestroyedPrimariesScarOngoingVirusesLiverTissuesRegenerationScar TissueAutoimmune DiseaseHepatitisScarringHepatitis CCirrhosis Author:John Roberts
“Civilization is a social plague on the planet, and vices are just as necessary to it as is a virus to disease.” SocialPlanetsCivilizationDiseaseVicesPlagueViruses Author:Charles Fourier
“HIV/AIDS from converted from a lethal disease into a chronic disease because basic scientists' fundamental research was done that illuminated aspects of that virus and allowed the generation of therapies like antiretroviral therapies. And so now HIV/AIDS is not a lethal disease, it is a chronic disease.” DoneGenerationsDiseaseResearchAspectScientistFundamentalsAidsTherapyVirusesHivHiv Aids Author:Laurie Glimcher
“First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.” FirstsStatesGovernmentNationsUnitedResponsibilityUnited StatesSeriousProtectDiseaseFundamentalsThreatFederal GovernmentVirusesWellbeingPublic HealthHealth And Wellbeing Author:Marco Rubio
“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.” WayHumansLongDoneDiesVictoryDiseaseDown AndHuman HistoryWipeVirusesPublic HealthDemiseHuntedViral Author:Jeffrey Kluger
“It is important to go into work you would like to do. Then it doesn't seem like work. You sometimes feel it's almost too good to be true that someone will pay you for enjoying yourself. I've been very fortunate that my work led to useful drugs for a variety of serious illnesses. The thrill of seeing people get well who might otherwise have died of diseases like leukemia, kidney failure, and herpes virus encephalitis cannot be described in words.” PeopleFeelsWellsImportantSometimesSeemsMightEnjoyPaySeeingSeriousHard WorkDrugDiseaseDiedIllnessBeing TrueVarietyFortunateThrillVirusesKidneysGet WellToo Good To Be TrueLeukemiaHerpesSerious Illness Author:Gertrude B. Elion
“It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and many others, but I think a case can be made that faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate.” ThinkingWorldMadeHumanityEvilCasesAtheismEvolutionDiseaseHarderMadThreatPositive AtheismAidsCowsVirusesFashionableApocalypticHuman EvolutionSmallpoxMad Cow Disease Author:Richard Dawkins
“I do think the Roman Catholic religion is a disease of the mind which has a particular epidemiology similar to that of a virus... Religion is a terrific meme. That's right. But that doesn't make it true and I care about what's true. Smallpox virus is a terrific virus. It does its job magnificently well. That doesn't mean that it's a good thing. It doesn't mean that I don't want to see it stamped out.” ThinkingWantMindWellsMeanDoeCareJobsAtheismParticularDiseaseCatholicGood ThingsI CareTerrificVirusesMemesRoman CatholicSmallpoxEpidemiologyCatholic Religion Author:Richard Dawkins
“Great writers arrive among us like new diseases - threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.” WritingPowerfulDiseasePicksThreatPatientThreateningImpatientIrresistibleVirusesGreat Writers Book:In Defence of T. S. Eliot Source: In Defence of T. S. Eliot
“I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.” StillsCountryFightingDifficultBornChanceBabyMetsDiseaseAidsCourageousTestedVirusesHivUnbornStigmaUndertakingsFathomHiv AidsBorn FreeHiv PositiveUnborn Baby Author:Gabriel Byrne
“If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.” IfsNeedsFirstsGovernmentDifficultStepsIssuesRightsPolicySeriousCivilizationDiseaseFirst TimeCrisisPopulationAidsGenuineTreatedCivil RightsCuresIsolatedFederal GovernmentPlagueVirusesPublic PolicyCarrierDeadly Diseases Author:Mike Huckabee