Quotes by Epidemics We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease. Patrick Soon-Shiong epidemicscancerthinking If you look upon chronic diseases as an epidemic, and you see that the chronically ill are the poor, then you see that this issue of the uninsured is not really a moral but a financial obligation to change health care. Patrick Soon-Shiong epidemicsissuescare 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. Paul Davies epidemicscancernumbers We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south. Paul Ryan epidemicsdrugamerica War is the most devastating endemic and epidemic disease the human race has to endure, and yet too little has been done to discover and eliminate its cause by intelligent early control. Pearl S. Buck epidemicsintelligentwar 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. Peter Agre asiaepidemicsschool Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local. Peter Piot epidemicssidesworld The reality is that the AIDS epidemic continues to outstrip the global and national efforts to contain it. Peter Piot aids-epidemicepidemicsreality We have a problem with drugs? Let's declare war on drugs! We have a problem with crime? Let's declare war on crime! We have a problem with violence? Let's declare war on violence! The deeply ingrained American attitude that we can solve any problem w/enough force creates, feeds, & rewards the epidemic of violence we are currently experiencing. Peter McWilliams epidemicsattitudewar One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations. Philip Emeagwali hivepidemicsmen [In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe. Pitirim Sorokin epidemicstakenearthquakes There's a huge AIDS epidemic in Africa, and one of Bad Boy's plans this year is to give more awareness to that. We're gonna be doing a big charity concert helping to save some of the brothers and sisters in Africa. Puff Daddy epidemicsbrotherboys 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. Rachel Cusk eating-disorderepidemicsfemale Was Luther crazy? Perhaps. But if he was, our prayer is that God would send to this earth an epidemic of such insanity that we too may taste of the righteousness that is by faith alone. R. C. Sproul epidemicscrazyprayer If the childhood obesity epidemic remains unchecked, it will condemn many of our kids to shorter lives, as well as the emotional and financial burdens of poor health. Richard Carmona epidemicsemotionalkids 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. Richard Carmona epidemicscaliforniamen It has always been the role of government to help solve problems, including and especially health crises. Obesity is a health epidemic across our country, and we have a responsibility as a government and a society to do all we can to promote good nutrition and healthy eating so we can reverse this alarming trend. Richard Codey epidemicsresponsibilitycountry There is an obesity epidemic. One out of every three Americans... weighs as much as the other two. Richard Jeni obesity-epidemicepidemicstwo The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less). Richard Dawkins hysteriaepidemicschildhood The steam-engine in its manifold applications, the crime-decreasing gas-lamp, the lightning conductor, the electric telegraph, the law of storms and rules for the mariner's guidance in them, the power of rendering surgical operations painless, the measures for preserving public health, and for preventing or mitigating epidemics,-such are among the more important practical results of pure scientific research, with which mankind have been blessed and States enriched. Richard Owen epidemicsblessedscience«1234567891011»
