Ronald Reagan Quotes

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

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

One-third of our people were dangerously ill, getting worse hourly, and we felt sure of meeting the same fate, with death as our only prospect, which in such a country was much worse yet.

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two.

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

The worst potential bio-terrorist is nature itself.

Humanity has but three great enemies: fever, famine, and war; of these by far the greatest, by far the most terrible, is fever.

Cairo became an empty desert, and there was no one to be seen in the streets. A man could go from the Zuwayla Gate to the Bab al-Nasr without encountering another soul. Wailing could be heard on all sides, and you did not pass a house without being assailed by shrieks. Corpses lay piled along the public way, burial trains jostled one another, and the dead were carried to the graves amidst commotion.

It entered Egypt at the end of the season when the grasslands turn green, hence in the autumn of the year 748…This epidemic was distinctive in that it did not particularly affect one region and leave another untouched but spread to all parts of the Earth, in the East as in the West…Furthermore, it encompassed not just the human species but also the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and the animals in the field…

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

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.

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.

"It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass, in a broken voice. "It was the salmon."

But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

If you were to go, and hopefully someday you will, you would see a lot of paintings of dead people. You'd see Jesus on the cross, and you'd see a dude get stabbed in the neck, and you'd see people dying at sea and in battle and a parade of martyrs. But Not. One. Single. Cancer. Kid. Nobody biting it from the plague or smallpox or yellow fever or whatever, because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of.

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.

We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.

I turned back to my extracurricular study of death and disease. Because no matter what Grace thought, I knew that in Mercy Falls, it's never over

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.