Epidemic Quotes
Quotes reflecting on epidemics, from disease to social crisis.
These quotes use the word epidemic both literally, referring to disease outbreaks like HIV/AIDS and malaria, and figuratively, describing the toll gun violence has taken on a generation of young people. For related context, see disease quotes.
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.
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Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.
Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
America Quotes
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...
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.
People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.
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...
Children Quotes
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.
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.
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...
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!
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.
Country Quotes
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
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.
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
Disease Quotes
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.
