In one year malaria kills 15 times more people in the world than AIDS has ever done…Malaria also keeps people down. They cannot man their economy.
Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
There are more people dying of malaria than any specific cancer.
Terrorism is not a public health threat, relative to cancer and heart disease and malaria and so forth.
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.
Addiction is a disease like anything else. It's like cancer, like heart disease, like diabetes.
Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.
My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Very few people around the world know that cancer kills more people than HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined - until we get everyone to realize that, it will be tough to get them to act.
Her skin was white as leprosy.
Diseases of the soul are more dangerous and more numerous than those of the body.
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.
This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.
My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer.
