Stephen King Quotes

Every outbreak across the globe today stems from a descendant of the medieval plague.

Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.

As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population; in the next generation it's a quarter; after that it's a childhood disease.

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

All infections, of whatever type, with no exceptions, are products of parasitic beings; that is, by living organisms that enter in other living organisms, in which they find nourishment, that is, food that suits them, here they hatch, grow and reproduce themselves.

Of course when you look back from all the pandemics that have happened in the world, they were really scary.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.

Germ theory, which secularized infectious disease, had a side effect: it sacralized epidemiology.

The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal.

Epidemics follow patterns because diseases follow patterns. Viruses spread; they reproduce; they die.

Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is an institute of the National Institutes of Health that is responsible predominantly for basic and clinical research in the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of immunologic and infectious diseases.

As life forms, viruses are just inherently interesting. It's the microworld - this universe of life too small for us to see - but it's profoundly complicated, and immensely powerful. Ebola is like a beautiful and frightening predator. There is a wonder in the operations of nature that can't be denied, even when we're the losers.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

I sing and play the guitar, and I'm a walking, talking bacterial infection.

More people in the world have died in such a short time of plague than has been heard or seen since the beginning of time …. Whoever touched the sick and dead was immediately infected and died …. That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants villages and cities so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.

The spread of the disease is under control. What I worry about is the spread of fear of the disease is not under control.

We can't predict when infectios diseases will break out, but their breakout is inevitable. That is why we must be prepared.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.