Frank Macfarlane Burnet Quotes

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

Unfortunately, infectious diseases don’t pay much attention to budget cycles.

Covid-19 may be here for a long time.

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

Ebola is a horrific disease.

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

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

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.

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.

We can’t make our own flu shots? We have chem labs everywhere. In the late 60’s we made LSD…and we can’t make flu shots?

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.

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

The difference is that with Ebola, it is such a devastating disease, and there is still no cure. They're still working on vaccines. The fact of the matter with polio, there is a cure; there is a vaccine.

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

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

We all have a stake in the battle against Ebola.

After a lot of debate and a lot of work, what people decided is, it makes a great deal of sense to be open in the system and allow people to begin to build better flu vaccines. I mean, we're still making them in eggs that come out of chickens. And we can see the consequences of that with the current H1N1 lack of vaccines.

As a war must have generals, so must a plague.

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

The world is rich enought today that the idea of millions of children dying of disease is unacceptable. We have the resouurces and know how to prevent this.

The AIDS is a disease that is hard to talk about.

One of the things polio does is it takes away your energy. They don't know very much about it. They should be a lot more aware of what polio is.

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

The worst pandemic in modern history was the Spanish flu of 1918, which killed tens of millions of people. Today, with how interconnected the world is, it would spread faster.