Viral Disease Quotes

I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.

I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Historical records show that smallpox was a human scourge for thousands of years. The virus produces high fever, severe back pain and scarring eruptions of flat red spots on the skin that turn into pustules and then into scabs - a two-week process during which the disease is highly contagious.

Health officials are saying the number of measles cases that originated in Disneyland continues to grow. Which is why this year after the game the Super Bowl MVPshouted, 'No way am I going to Disneyland!'

We cannot think of the old days when we were dealing with SARS. It's a totally different ballgame now.

From the beginning, the HIV/AIDS pandemic has presented very difficult challenges.

Ebola is a nasty disease to get. It's scary. But as a weapon, it is probably not likely. Ebola is a difficult malady to weaponize and deliver efficiently.

Influenza killed more people in September, October, and November of 1918 than AIDS killed in all the years since it entered the human population.

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

The possible impact of the virus [Zika] an extraordinary event and a public health threat to other parts of the world.

It's hard to imagine, but we cant think of HIV/AIDS as being somebody else's story. It could be any of ours.

I have a lot of friends who are infected with HIV, and you wanna protect them... To increase the awareness of it and to find a cure for it, the human lives we would save would be a really awesome thing. You just have to involve yourself as much as you can.

We don't know what we don't know about Ebola. We think we know it's a virus, but is it mutating? Can it be spread by airborne?

I run a modest-sized laboratory that's looking specifically at what we call 'the pathogenic mechanisms of HIV disease, or AIDS.'

Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

We have to keep up our guard. We won't get the risk of Ebola to zero in the U.S. until we stop it in West Africa. And Ebola is hard to fight. It requires intensity. It requires speed and flexibility.

Viral infections, such as mumps, rubella and meningitis, cause inflammation of the inner ear or auditory nerve, resulting in permanent damage.

Popular ideas about AIDS are based on a hypothesis that does not stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.