In these days of computer viruses, asking if you may put your disk into someone's computer is the technological equivalent of unsafe sex.
--RUTH DUDLEY EDWARDS, Irish historical
and Journalist,
in the London newspaper The Independent
In the 19th century men lost their fear of God and acquired a fear of microbes.
--Anonymous
The fourth most common cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States [is]… medication errors, the wrong things that we do simply because we don't pay much attention to them, or we just don't know, or we just don't care.
--DR. JACOB ARANDA,
professor of pediatrics, pharmacology, and pharmaceutical science
at Wayne State University, Michigan, citing a report by the United States
Institute of Medicine (IOM) called To Err Is Human (1999)
This whole thing is like a cross between a very severe virus and getting married.
--EMMA THOMPSON, English actor, upon receiving an Academy Award
for her role in Howards End (1991)
Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
--SUSAN SONTAG, American writer, writing in the New York
Review of Books
It is not about death and dying. A lot of companies [now] realize it's about life and living.
--ANTHONY PRAMULARATANA, executive director, Thailand Business
Coalition against AIDS, talking about changing mindsets on HIV/AIDS in the worplace
It is one of the oldest diseases known to man, and … can only be one of the deadliest.
--DR. CECILIA MONTALBAN,
chair, Philippine General
Hospital Therapeutics Committee, referring to influenza
Vaccination is among the best public-health success stories in our lifetime.
--DR. REMEDIOS CORONEL,
chair, task force on adult immunization,
Philippine Society for Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Love, care, and affection are not enough; we need to think of their future.
--USANEE JANNGEON,
representative from the Mercy Center, a
Bangkok foundation that takes care of pediatric HIV/AIDS patients
Epidemics have often been more influential than statesmen and soldiers in shaping the course of political history, and diseases may also color the moods of civilizations.
--RENÉ DUBOS,
American bacteriologist, in The
White Plague: Tuberculosis, Man, and Society
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