Epidemics Quotes
Epidemics Quote of the day
Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's cos white folks are doing it.
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
I took a lot of time off after Mobsters and although I did something I had never done before, which was to direct a play, The Laughter Epidemic, it felt like a vacation.
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
We need safe communities that are free from methamphetamine and a federal commitment to stand next to state leadership and law enforcement in the fight against this epidemic.
My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover.
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
One of the most dangerous and best-kept secrets of the medical profession is the epidemic of anesthesiologists who are addicted to their own drugs.
Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.
Violence in our society has reached epidemic proportions. ... Violence in the media for entertainment purposes has been established as a major contributing factor.
The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.
What we really need to avoid is this epidemic of false positivism and false happiness, which says if it hurts, it must be bad. Sometimes it hurts because you have a conscience.
Photography works hand in glove with image and memory and therefore possesses their notable epidemic power.
Stupas protect beings from 5 major disasters: war, epidemic diseases, famine, pollution, n poverty.
The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it.
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
As a nation we should commit ourselves not only to the fight against terrorism, but to economic justice, defeat of the AIDS epidemic and vestiges of discriminatory policies of all kinds.
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are in for drug crimes.
There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two.
How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era.
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
It is possible to create an epidemic of health which is self-organizing and self-propelling.
For the first time, the nation will have goals, benchmarks, and measureable outcomes that will help us tackle the childhood obesity epidemic one child, one family, and one community at a time.
We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.
America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.
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.
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all.
China is certainly an important player in the global economy, and a widespread AIDS epidemic would threaten that growth.
The ideal thing would be to have a 100 percent effective AIDS vaccine. And to have broad usage of that vaccine. That would literally break the epidemic.
Although it is still important to develop an HIV vaccine, we have significant tools already at our disposal that can make a major impact on the trajectory of this epidemic.
The answer is that the success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.
In countries around the world, waistlines are expanding so rapidly that health experts recently coined a term for the epidemic: globesity.
The Ebola epidemic can serve as an early warning wake-up call to get ready. If we start now, we can be ready for the next epidemic.
The epidemic is truly black-on-black crime. The greatest danger to the lives of young black men are young black men.