- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on Aug 01, 2026
- Discussed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Young people across the country have grown up traumatized by the gun violence epidemic.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Malaria was one of the epidemic diseases with the most comprehensive records in traditional Chinese medical literature.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
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!
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where you criminalize people living with HIV or those at greatest risk, you fuel the epidemic.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020