Disease Prevention Quotes

Shovels aren't very glamorous, but they've been liberating entire communities from malaria for the past 5,000 years.

It is a tragedy, at rate at which EBOLA VIRUS is spreading in West Africa. It is a fatal disease in the history of the world. Intensive education (formal and informal approaches) of the citizens of African can help prevent the spread. International cooperation is urgently needed to combat the EBOLA virus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

Molly Caldwell Crosby

When considering grand plans for effective communicable disease control in this time of Ebola peril, malaria continues to kill nearly a million people a year world-wide, and by far the single most reliable protection against malaria is to sleep under a mosquito net, but one of the major impediments to this basic and effective malaria control is that many people, regardless of education level or country of origin, in malaria endemic zones don't install and use one, not that they can't get one, but because they don't think the mosquito net 'looks nice.

In regard to the aetiology of infectious diseases we must abandon the notions conceived in time of Koch, Ehrlich and Pasteur on the 'pathogenic' nature of the microorganisms of external and internal media. In the full sense of the word it is not the bacteria themselves that are pathogenic, but those physiological correlations which exist in the given organism at a particular moment and which are organically connected with the disturbances in its regulative systems and nervous mechanisms. There are no special 'pathogenic' microbes in nature; there are, however, no end of factors that promote susceptibility in a normally resistant subject, and vice versa.

Arshavir Ter Hovannessian

If the natural environment is changed and the electromagnetic radiation levels increase, then it may cause illness and disease in humans.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

You have a responsibility to keep your homes, surroundings and city clean.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When we assess someone's life or health on the basis of surface-level observations or passing comments, it presents us with a very flawed version of reality.

I have every expectation that cancer will become known as the disease of human evolution trying and failing to adapt to a significantly changed environment.

Separation from the community creates isolation. Isolation is the source of most physical, emotional and spiritual disease.