Johnny Vegas Quotes

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

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

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

We don't know why, but there are some gradients of infection.

Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been sufficient to demonstrate the way in which the disease was propagated.

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

Anthrax, it's something that gets you sick, it's horrible, strong. It's a heavy-metal band name if there ever was one.

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.

There are some sick people in this world.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

Left to their own devices, epidemic diseases tend to follow the same basic process: A virus or bacteria infects a host, who typically becomes sick and in many cases dies. Along the way, the host infects others.

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.

The first day I arrived, they told me to go home and get rid of that cold.

I wish that person outside would stop coughing.

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

Epidemiologists study patterns in order to combat infection. Stories about epidemics follow patterns, too. Stories aren't often deadly, but they can be virulent: spreading fast, weakening resistance, wreaking havoc.

Infectious diseases ... have probably been the most dangerous of enemies of mankind, much more so than war and mass murder. When one studies the constant epidemics of the past and the deficiency diseases on land and at sea, one realizes that the whole of civilization could have succumbed, and one is constantly surprised that mankind has survived.

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

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.

I know intellectually that if I shake somebody's hand that I'm not going to get sick and die.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

I had never heard of staph until I got it. Didn't really know what was. Still don't really know what it is, but I know you just don't want to have it.

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.