Walter Salles Quotes

Hansen’s disease”—that’s the other modern name, I guess, for leprosy—“Hansen’s disease was so rare in the America that in 40 years only 900 people were afflicted. Suddenly, in the past three years, America has more than 7,000 cases of leprosy

Coughs seem very common here, especially among the children, though people look strong and healthy, but in the absence of proper statistics one cannot undertake to say whether the district is a healthy one or not.

Eighty percent of Americans with HIV do not know they are infected.

I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.

The world is sick.

Coronavirus may well represent the biggest health crisis any of us experience in our lifetimes.

[H]as the CDC ever published a story about the dangers of catching diseases when you sleep with illegal aliens?

Tom Cotton voted against preparing America for pandemics like Ebola.

The indigenous population is not responsible [for rising HIV infection rates]. It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.

We are the ones who work every day with people who are suffering because they don't have health care. We cannot turn our backs on them, so for us, health care reform is a faith-based response to human need.

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.

First, the federal government, one of the fundamental responsibilities that it has is to protect the nation's health and wellbeing. And this [Zika virus] is a threat to public health in the United States. It is a very serious disease.

It is a great day for the great state of Texas. The last person being tested for Ebola has come back clean. So Texas is now Ebola free. This was a big week for them. They're now free of Ebola - and Democrats.

Childhood obesity issue is critically important to me because it's critically important to the health and success of our kids, and of this nation, ultimately.

So what? I'm out here doing commentary with Malaria.

The U.S. cannot allow EBOLA infected people back. People that go to far away places to help out are great-but must suffer the consequences!

I don't think we are comforted by the fact that we were told there would never be a case of Ebola in the United States and obviously that's not correct.

Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.

Ebola has arrived in New York City. And I say, 'if it can make it there...it can make it anywhere!'

Flu is easily transmitted, so if you are working with sick people - who are most at risk for getting seriously ill - you ought to be vaccinated. I am not really equipped to say whether it should be the law or not.

Malaria kills and its main victims are children and women. We can stop this scourge so people can live with dignity and go to work and school.

From a public health point of view, still the overwhelming problem is that people are not treated enough for depression; depression remains under treated.

The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be.

China and other members should join efforts to combat serious infectious disease, such as bird flu. To enhance the cooperation on the prevention of bird flu is an important target of the organization, which includes Russia, China and four Central Asian states.