- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Epidemic Quotes
Most Famous Epidemic Quotes of All Time!
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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- 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
We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- American Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
One out of every 100 American men is HIV positive. The rate of infection has reached epidemic proportions in 40 developing nations.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don't address it. Until it happens to celebrities.
- Find
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.
- Newspaper
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender teens are bullied and ostracized in epidemic proportions. It's disgusting, and it must change.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started to write about science and medicine at the 'Washington Post,' in the early days of the AIDS epidemic.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Economics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Promoting healthy lifestyles and encouraging fitness are so important for our children's development and reducing the nation's epidemic of childhood obesity.
- National
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bullying is a national epidemic.
- Obesity
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- Nov 07, 2020
The infant mortality rates are insanely high. The obesity epidemic is on the rise. It is all related.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
The swelling epidemic of human trafficking makes a mockery of the law and its protections.
- High
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Brady
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Brady Act was passed in response to what Congress described as an 'epidemic of gun violence.'
- Mistake
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Daily Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Early Years
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Society
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Sick
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- Nov 07, 2020