Marvin Olasky Quotes

Even the pandemic flu of 1918 only killed one to two percent of the people who were infected.

The heart of the security agenda is protecting lives - and we now know that the number of people who will die of AIDS in the first decade of the 21st Century will rival the number that died in all the wars in all the decades of the 20th century.

AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.

The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.

A pandemic influenza would mean widespread infection essentially throughout every region of the world.

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.

Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.

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.

I remember specifically, in the summer of 2002, the rate of women infected with HIV/AIDS was beginning to match the rate of men, and nobody was talking about it. It was as if it was on nobody else's radar. I had made up my mind to do something about it.

I thought, wait and see—maybe it [AIDS] is not as hot as some are making it appear. I definitely admit to a gross underestimate. We're running scared.

Influenza killed more people in September, October, and November of 1918 than AIDS killed in all the years since it entered the human population.

HIV/AIDS is the greatest danger we have faced for many, many centuries. HIV/AIDS is worse than a war. It is like a world war. Millions of people are dying from it.

HIV/AIDS has become much more than a health issue. HIV/AIDS is a development issue, it's a security issue.

My play Safe Sex was picked apart because critics thought it was untrue. It was a play in which no one had AIDS, but the characters talked about how it was going to change their lives.

I fight AIDS because it's a killer disease, destroys the human race in all fields.

The cholera had broken out at the post, and five or six men were dying daily.

AIDS does not inevitably lead to death, especially if you suppress the co-factors that support the disease. It is very important to tell this to people who are infected.

MRSA, which is a kind of super bug mutant, is killing 10,000 people a year in Britain.

I was a gay man living in the epicenter of 20th-century America's worst health epidemic.

On December 17, 1984, I had surgery to remove two inches of my left lung due to pneumonia. After two hours of surgery the doctors told my mother I had AIDS.

AIDS didn’t announce itself when it arrived, and it was only after it started taking its toll that we realized our problem.

Medical statistics will be our standard of measurement: we will weigh life for life and see where the dead lie thicker, among the workers or among the privileged

The plague is upon us. One cannot well study plagues until after they have run their course.

The city looks in some streets as if the plague had been in it, so many houses being shut up.