Emerging Diseases Quotes & Sayings

The Mill gets by going. — George Herbert

I sat there for three hours and did not feel the time or the boredom of our talk and its foolish disconnection. As long as I could hear his voice, I was quite lost, quite blind, quite outside my own self. — Anais Nin

The Senate is a remarkable institution. It is unique. There is no other body, no other political body, no other democratic legislature in the world quite like the U.S. Senate. — Max Baucus

Serendipity is looking in a haystack for a needle and discovering a farmer's daughter. — Julius H. Comroe Jr.

Medicine has been successful by treating diseases in a very specific way once the damage is done. But telomere length integrates a lot of factors together and gives you an overall picture of risk for what is now emerging as a lot of diseases that tend to occur together, such as diabetes and heart disease. — Elizabeth Blackburn

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal. — Paulo Coelho

What do scientists mean when they talk of a virus? This is not quite so elementary as some people might believe. In The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a virus is defined as "a morbid principle, or a poisonous venom, especially one capable of being introduced into another person or animal." The dictionary takes its cue from the Latin virus, which denotes a slimy liquid, a poison, an offensive odor or taste. It is a colorful definition, redolent of medieval notions of disease origins in evil emanations, but it offers little by way of scientific understanding. — Frank Ryan

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen. — Margaret Chan