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Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.

Quotes by Wayne Messam

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.

Quotes by Wallace Stevens

When the HIV/AIDS epidemic first appeared, a lot of the reaction was that it's not happening here. It doesn't exist. It's not on the continent of Africa. Then we moved into this other phase, in which it was kind of like, it's everywhere.

Quotes by Uzodinma Iweala

Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.

Quotes by Tu Youyou

Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.

Quotes by Tu Youyou

People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

The first case of Ebola diagnosed in the United States has caused some to call on the United States to ban travel for anyone from the countries in West Africa facing the worst of the Ebola epidemic. That response is understandable. It's only human to want to protect ourselves and our families.

Quotes by Tom Frieden

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.

Quotes by Tom Glazer

Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Quotes by Tim Holden

Soon after joining the Ministry of Health in Ethiopia, I was called upon as part of team to respond to a malaria outbreak. My team was dispatched to a village in southwestern Ethiopia, where I not only observed the malaria epidemic's shocking effects on adults and children but also experienced it first-hand.

Quotes by Tedros Adhanom

Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!

Quotes by Tate Taylor

Personally, I don't get that whole reality show thing. It was much smaller, and it's grown. It's like an epidemic. I'm still rather confused by it.

Quotes by Sienna Guillory

Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.

Quotes by Shereen El Feki

Part of my job at 'The Economist' was writing about HIV, and that included the grim task of reporting on the state of the global epidemic.

Quotes by Shereen El Feki

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Quotes by Sarah Brady

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

Quotes by Robert Gober

The people in power have created an obesity epidemic.

Quotes by Robert Atkins

As a young surgeon in training at the University of California San Francisco General Hospital in the early '80s, my colleagues and I were inundated with an epidemic of young men with fevers, rashes, swollen lymph nodes and eventually death.

Quotes by Richard Carmona

An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.

Quotes by Rachel Cusk

One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.

Quotes by Philip Emeagwali

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this.

Quotes by Peter Agre

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide.

Quotes by Paul Davies

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

Quotes by Patrick Soon-Shiong

The Ebola epidemic was the most frightening outbreak I have witnessed in my lifetime, and I believe it was necessary to react globally as strongly as we did.

Quotes by Pardis Sabeti

Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.

Quotes by Nelsan Ellis

If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

Quotes by Nathan Wolfe

I couldn't open up a magazine, you couldn't read a newspaper, you couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the obesity epidemic in America.

Quotes by Morgan Spurlock

Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.

Quotes by Monica Raymund

The Asia and the Pacific region is facing an epidemic of road death and injury, but we also have innovative Asian road safety solutions.

Quotes by Michelle Yeoh

I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.

Quotes by Michael Specter

One of my worries about America is the epidemic of depression we've been in. One of the possibilities about that is that the 'I' gets bigger and bigger, and the 'we' gets smaller and smaller.

Quotes by Martin Seligman

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Quotes by Mark Hyman

This country must break the cycle of childhood obesity. Unless we reverse course, this epidemic will continue to put more of our children and the future of our nation at risk.

Quotes by Marcia Fudge

Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.

Quotes by Marcia Fudge

Bullying is a national epidemic.

Quotes by Macklemore

The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.

Quotes by Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Dependence on oil from volatile foreign markets undermines our economic security and threatens our national security. Moreover, that addiction is producing toxic air and a public-health epidemic.

Quotes by Kevin de Leon

I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It's an earthling epidemic; it's not isolated in the black community.

Quotes by Jussie Smollett

The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.

Quotes by Josh Hawley

In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.

Quotes by John Seabrook

The problem with the standard American diet, a primary cause of our current obesity epidemic, is the fact that the majority of foods consumed are high in calories and low in micronutrients.

Quotes by Joel Fuhrman

Nations don't have friends; they have interests. The best motivation for a state to act if it is remote from an epidemic is if its own security is at risk.

Quotes by Joanne Liu

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

Quotes by Jenny McCarthy

Although there have been warnings that it was coming for years, the Alzheimer's epidemic is here now and millions more families will be touched by this progressive - and ultimately fatal - disease unless its course can be altered.

Quotes by Jeanne Phillips

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.

Quotes by Jared Diamond

My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.

Quotes by James Rainwater

The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.

Quotes by Heather Mac Donald

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

George Bernard Shaw

All the men in my life have been two things: an epic and an epidemic.

Quotes by Ethel Waters

My work with AIDS patients started right at the beginning of the epidemic, totally unplanned and spontaneous, as all my work had proceeded in the previous two decades, if it were not already my whole life-style! In the early eighties, we knew very little about this peculiar disease.

Quotes by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'

Quotes by David Souter

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in the series of mistakes in 2007 and 2008 that led to the financial panic and the ensuing epidemic of job losses.

Quotes by David Malpass

Violence against women and children resembles an epidemic. It has spread through society, sparing no social group or class.

Quotes by Cyril Ramaphosa

I don't sing now, because I had polio when I was 15, bulbar polio. This was when the epidemic was happening. And I was lucky that it didn't affect my lungs or my legs. It went to my face and kind of paralyzed my vocal chords, and I wasn't able to sing. And they said I was very lucky that I would get over it, which I did.

Quotes by Charlie Haden

Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue that one of the biggest reasons for the nation's current obesity epidemic is that food is now so much cheaper and easier to prepare.

Quotes by Charles Duhigg

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.

Quotes by Charles B. Rangel

Despite all the attention paid to the obesity epidemic and the growing prevalence of preventable diseases, in the U.S. - as a society and as an industry - we've made health hard, even as our daily lives become easier.

Quotes by Bruce Broussard

In the early years of America's skyjacking epidemic, the airlines were reluctant to let the FBI attempt to end hijackings by force; they feared that innocents would get caught in the crossfire, thereby sparking a wave of negative publicity.

Quotes by Brendan I. Koerner

The first outbreak of America's 11-year skyjacking epidemic occurred in the summer of 1961, when four planes were seized in the nation's airspace. The last of these incidents, involving 16-year-old Cody Bearden and his father, Leon, is the one that finally forced the federal government to pay attention to the escalating crisis.

Quotes by Brendan I. Koerner

However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.

Quotes by Bob Filner

It's not a surprise that the mental health epidemic is affecting so many people because we can't escape this bubble from being on our phones and tablets.

Quotes by Ben Fogle

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.

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'

Quotes by Anthony Fauci

Online harassment, especially gendered online harassment, is an epidemic. Women are being driven out; they're being driven offline. This isn't just in gaming. This is happening across the board online, especially with women who participate in or work in male-dominated industries.

Quotes by Anita Sarkeesian

You can find episodes like the flu epidemic or war times when mortality rates go up, but sustained increases in mortality for any major group in any society are really quite rare. It's an indication that something is very wrong.

Quotes by Angus Deaton

I think in today's society we are dealing with an epidemic of fatherless homes. We're turning everywhere else for people to be fathered.

Quotes by Andy Mineo

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

Quotes by Alan Huffman

Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.

Quotes by Alan Huffman

Gun violence in the U.S. is an epidemic.

Quotes by Adam Cohen

To me, AIDS is an international epidemic and every country can be affected by it. Therefore, it can be discussed on an international level. Unfortunately, AIDS doesn't require a visa.

Quotes by Abbas Kiarostami

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