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Antibiotics Quotes

Medicine, resistance, and recovery.

These antibiotics quotes range from a personal recovery from Lyme disease to a bigger warning about resistance building up on farms that raise Animals with heavy antibiotic use.

Widespread use of antibiotics promotes the spread of antibiotic resistance. Smart use of antibiotics is the key to controlling its spread.

Quotes by A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

In 2013, after a challenging two years of long-term IV antibiotics and six weeks at a clinic in florida, I received the 'Star Light' award from the Lyme Research Alliance for my advocacy and strength to light the way of...

Quotes by Yolanda Hadid

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

Quotes by Vaclav Smil

Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

Able Quotes

I thought we were going to get customers excited by telling them there were no antibiotics in our meat or no growth hormones used to raise the animals or no RBGH in our cheese or sour cream. Well, that's not...

Quotes by Steve Ells

To eat chicken that was raised with antibiotics is safe, right? But long-term, relying on antibiotics as part of our livestock production is probably not the right thing to do. To not serve chicken means that there's not an economic...

Quotes by Steve Ells

I think that the discoveries of antibiotics and vaccines have contributed to the improvement of the quality of life, making it possible to prevent contagious diseases.

Quotes by Shinya Yamanaka

In learning to utilize antibiotics for the control of human and animal diseases, the medical and veterinary professions have acquired powerful tools for combating infections and epidemics.

Quotes by Selman Waksman

Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something...

Quotes by Richard Lamm

Animal Quotes

A naturopath once told me you should never take antibiotics except if you have pneumonia, a kidney infection or some other serious illness. That's my philosophy, too.

Quotes by Pamela Sue Martin

If left untreated, Lyme disease can be crippling, yet it is a difficult illness to contract: a tick needs to attach itself to your body for at least twenty-four hours. Even then, two weeks worth of commonly prescribed antibiotics will...

Quotes by Michael Specter

While consumers may be more shocked by pink slime or the feeding of Prozac to poultry, the routine feeding of millions of pounds of human antibiotics to chickens presents a much graver threat.

Quotes by Michael Greger

I've never had a sinus infection or been on antibiotics since cutting out dairy.

Quotes by Mayim Bialik

There is a glaring reason that the necessary total ban on nontherapeutic use of antibiotics hasn't happened: The factory farm industry, allied with the pharmaceutical industry, has more power than public-health professionals.

Quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animals Quotes

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

Quotes by Caskie Stinnett

When antibiotics became industrially produced following World War II, our quality of life and our longevity improved enormously. No one thought bacteria were going to become resistant.

Quotes by Bonnie Bassler

When antibiotics first came out, nobody could have imagined we'd have the resistance problem we face today. We didn't give bacteria credit for being able to change and adapt so fast.

Quotes by Bonnie Bassler

Antibiotics are a very serious public health problem for us, and it's getting worse. Resistant microbes outstrip new antibiotics. It's an ongoing problem. It's not like we can fix it, and it's over. We have to fight continued resistance with...

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this antibiotics quotes page cover?
A personal account of recovering from Lyme disease using long-term IV antibiotics, alongside broader points about resistance and farming practices.
Why do people search for antibiotics quotes?
Many are dealing with a tick-borne illness or resistant infection themselves and want language that reflects both the medical and personal side of it.
Is there a quote about antibiotic resistance?
Yes, one points to countries scaling back antibiotic use in farming as a needed step to avoid creating resistance that outpaces medicine.
Do any quotes credit antibiotics with bigger changes?
One notes that antibiotics, alongside vaccines, turned many infectious diseases that once killed people into largely preventable, treatable conditions.
What related quotes connect to this topic?
Our Animals quotes connect to the farming and resistance angle covered here.

Together with vaccines, these drugs get credit for making once-deadly infections a thing of the past. Read more in our Able quotes, or see what challenges people say they've Been through.